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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture As a supplement to Gordon Plumb's links to depictions of St. Clare of Assisi in glass (posted on 11. August, her present feast day in the Roman Catholic Church and in churches of the Anglican Communion), herewith some links to other period-pertinent images of this saint, some familiar, others perhaps not. Depending of course on one's level of interest, this could also be a great opportunity to see many representations of monstrances in their early forms. a) as depicted (at far right, flanking Jesus' feet; at left, St. Francis of Assisi; at far left Bl. Benedicta of Assisi) on the lower crossbar of the later thirteenth-century Cross of Abbess Benedicta (probably betw. 1255 and ca. 1265) in the basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi: http://tinyurl.com/q3vng59 NB: The inscriptions are later additions (fourteenth-century?). b) as depicted (displaying the Eucharist in a ciborium to Muslim soldiers of Frederick II attacking San Damiano) by Guido da Siena -- the customary attribution -- in a panel of a pair of later thirteenth-century reliquary shutters (ca. 1260; the so-called Diptych of St. Clare) in the Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena: http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ikalmar/images/guidosaracens.JPG c) as depicted in the lower margin of two of five leaves of the later thirteenth-century Fieschi Hours (betw. 1276 and 1300) that place her there (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.45, fols. 89v, 191r; images reasonably expandable): 1) fol. 89v: flanked by two Poor Clares in prayer: http://tinyurl.com/pcn6at8 2) fol. 191r: at far right, after Sts. Francis of Assisi and Elizabeth of Hungary: http://tinyurl.com/pvscnsu d) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Francis of Assisi) by Giotto di Bondone in a later thirteenth-century fresco (betw. 1279 and 1300) in the upper church of the basilica di San Francesco at Assisi: http://tinyurl.com/pw2r58e e) as depicted (full-length and with scenes from her Vita by Bl. Thomas of Celano) in a late thirteenth-century painted dossal (ca. 1283) in the basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi: http://tinyurl.com/qy6pnxx Detail view: http://www.assisisantachiara.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/004.jpg f) as depicted by Simone Martini in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1312-1320) in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco at Assisi: http://tinyurl.com/neo9mab g) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Elizabeth of Hungary) by Simone Martini in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (1317) on the entrance to the cappella di San Martino in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco at Assisi: http://www.wga.hu/art/s/simone/3assisi/1saints/saints40.jpg h) as depicted by Giotto di Bondone in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1325) in the Cappella Bardi in Florence's basilica di Santa Croce: http://tinyurl.com/nskozez i) as depicted by Lippo Memmi in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1330; a re-framed pinnacle from a dismembered altarpiece) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437064 j) as depicted in a corner of a perhaps mid-fourteenth-century portolan chart (ca. 1334-1366; Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, carte 6): http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht8/IRHT_125811-p.jpg k) as portrayed in high relief (at left; at right, St. Elizabeth of Hungary) on the probably mid-fourteenth-century west portal (1340s) of the Minoritenkirche in Vienna: http://www.minoritenkirche-wien.info/daten/lnk2011/klaraundelisabeth.JPG l) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Francis of Assisi) by Jaume Ferrer Bassa in a mid-fourteenth-century fresco (betw. 1343 and 1348) in the capella di Sant Miquel of the Reial Monestir de Pedralbes in Barcelona: http://tinyurl.com/nhug2m3 m) as depicted (receiving from Innocent IV his Rule for her order) by Sebald Weinschröter and assistants in a panel of a later fourteenth-century altarpiece for the convent church of the Poor Clares in Nürnberg and now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in the same city: http://www.hdbg.de/karl/bilder/013-g.jpg n) as depicted by Andrea Vanni in a later fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1360-1370) in the Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA: http://tinyurl.com/nbpnq32 o) as depicted in three panels from a dismembered later fourteenth-century altarpiece of Franconian origin (ca. 1360-1370) illustrating scenes from her life: 1) receiving the palm from the bishop of Assisi (at left, St. Francis of Assisi), now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1984.343 2) hearing the voice of Christ in the ciborium: http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm1217 3) death on earth and coronation in Heaven, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg: http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Gm1187 p) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century Roman missal (ca. 1370) of north Italian origin (Avignon, Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 136, fol. 262v): http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_055358-p.jpg q) as depicted (at right, leading the sisters in prayer) in a late fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1380-1400) in the oratorio di Santa Chiara in the convento di San Damiano at Assisi: http://www.inassisi.com/foto_santa_chiara/Santa_Chiara_DSC_7621.jpg r) as depicted (at left; at right, bp. St. Erhard) in a fifteenth-century panel painting, from a dismembered triptych (?originally from Regensburg), in the Muzeum Okręgowe w Nowym Sączu / Nowy Sącz District Museum, in -- but you have already guessed this -- Nowy Sącz: http://muzea.malopolska.pl/obiekty/-/a/26897/1130735 s) as depicted (on her deathbed) by the Master of Heiligenkreuz in an early fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1400-1410) in the National Gallery, Washington, DC: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.41698.html t) as depicted (receiving, with two sisters, from Urban IV, with two cardinals, his revised Rule for the Poor Clares) at the beginning of an early fifteenth-century copy of Urban's bull _Beata Clara virtute clarens et nomine_ translated into Catalan (Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, ms. 3723, fol. 1v): http://www.ub.edu/duoda/bvid/text.php?doc=Duoda:text:2013.07.0008 u) as depicted (at right; at left, St. James the Great) as depicted by the Master of Flémalle (perh. Robert Campin and/or workshop) in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1430) on the backside of his altarpiece of the Betrothal of the Virgin in the Museo del Prado, Madrid: http://tinyurl.com/o8mqm74 v) as depicted by the Master of the Loeser Madonna in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1430; from a dismembered altarpiece) in the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA: http://georgiamuseum.org/kressproject/from-the-collection/st-clare w) as depicted (saving people from shipwreck in a stormy sea) by Giovanni di Paolo in a mid-fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1455) in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin: http://tinyurl.com/oln2stz x) as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century fresco (1456) in an edicule on the exterior of the cattedrale di San Michele Arcangelo in Albenga: http://tinyurl.com/nrsbb94 y) as depicted (at lower right, flanking the Madonna della Misericordia; at lower left, St. Francis of Assisi) by Niccolò Alunno / Nicolò di Liberatore on a later fifteenth-century processional banner (1462) whose paintings, transferred to canvas, are now in Assisi's Museo comunale in the Palazzo Vallemani: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1005/5182374477_1ff9dc5f43_o.jpg z) as depicted (receiving the palm from the bishop of Assisi) as by the Master of the Bamberg St. Clare Altar in a panel of that later fifteenth-century altarpiece (ca. 1465-1475) in the Staatsgalerie, Bamberg: http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7006292.JPG aa) as depicted by Piero della Francesca in a predella panel of his later fifteenth-century Perugia Altarpiece (ca. 1468-1470; Altarpiece of St. Anthony of Padua) in the Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia: http://www.wga.hu/art/p/piero/1/3anton06.jpg After restoration in 1993: http://tinyurl.com/ozeyl3x Detail view (Clare): http://tinyurl.com/owdcbj2 bb) as depicted (at left; at right; St. Francis of Assisi) by Niccolò Alunno / Nicolò di Liberatore in a detail of his later fifteenth-century _Gonfalone della peste_ (ca. 1470) in the Priesterhaus in Kevelaer: http://tinyurl.com/nocrwsv cc) as depicted (upper register at center, betw. Bl. John Duns Scotus and St. Louis of Toulouse) by Carlo Crivelli in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (1471?; from his now dismembered Montefiore altarpiece) in the Polo Museale di San Francesco at Montefiore dell'Aso (AP) in the Marche: http://sirpac.cultura.marche.it/SirpacIntraWeb/storage/Label/1282/384/32E.jpg Detail views: http://tinyurl.com/omfpq7q http://tinyurl.com/q9o3dlh dd) as depicted a later fifteenth-century Roman breviary (betw. 1482 and 1500; Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque du patrimoine, ms. 69, fol. 513r): http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_081365-p.jpg http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/11/64/82/51/sainte21.jpg ee) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Edmund king and martyr) on the seemingly late fifteenth-century rood screen (ca. 1490) in the Church of St John the Baptist's Head, Trimingham (Norfolk): http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/trimingham/images/dscf0247.jpg ff) as depicted (at left holding up the Eucharist before Muslim soldiers of Frederick II) in a late fifteenth-century illumination (ca. 1490-1494) in the Sforza Hours (London, BL, Add MS 34294, vol. 3, fol. 210v): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_34294_f210v gg) as depicted in the late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri (London, BL, Yates Thompson MS 29, fol. 62r): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_29_f062r hh) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Elizabeth of Hungary) by Tiberio d'Assisi in an early sixteenth-century fresco (1506) in the Cappella delle Rose of the basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli at Assisi: http://www.assisiofm.it/foto2/510.jpg Detail view: http://www.assisiofm.it/foto2/9137.jpg ii) as depicted (at far right) by Tiberio d'Assisi in an early sixteenth-century panel painting of the Crucifixion with Saints (1506) in the Museo del Tesoro della basilica di San Francesco in Assisi: http://www.christianiconography.info/Edited%20in%202013/Italy/crucifixionWithSS.html jj) as depicted (at right, flanking the BVM and Christ Child; at left, St. Francis of Assisi) by Cima da Conegliano in an early sixteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1510) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435901 kk) as depicted in an early sixteenth-century miscellany (1516) formerly in the library of the Franciscans in Troyes (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 996, fol. 145v): http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht17/IRHT_12540-p.jpg ll) as depicted by Tiberio d'Assisi in two earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1517, 1522) at the cappella di San Girolamo in the convento di San Damiano at Assisi: 1: at right, flanking the BVM and Christ Child; at left, St. Francis of Assisi and a donor: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/114758935 http://tinyurl.com/pc6hunw 2: at far left, with Sts. Francis of Assisi, Sebastian, and Roch: http://www.ifilmati.eu/uploads/2/1/1/2/21125084/2558503_orig.jpg Detail view (Clare, Francis): http://tinyurl.com/pz3oeys mm) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Jodocus) in an earlier sixteenth-century glass roundel (ca. 1520-1530) of southern Netherlandish origin in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/471094 Best, John Dillon ________________________________ From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Heintzelman, Matthew <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 8:47 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A saint for the day (August 12): St. Clare/Clara medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Sorry, on vacation this week and a bit behind on forwarding the daily links. Here is one of our family’s favorite saints, or at least her name: https://www.facebook.com/604882972899463/photos/a.624764970911263.1073741830.604882972899463/856175244436900/?type=1&theater [We have a Clara of our own in our family. Her hair is not cut short, however.] “As a child, Clare was devoted to prayer. Although there is no mention of this in any historical record, it is assumed that Clare was to be married in line with the family tradition. However, at the age of 18 she heard Francis preach during a Lenten service in the church of San Giorgio at Assisi, and asked him to help her to live after the manner of the Gospel. On the evening of Palm Sunday, March 20, 1212, she left her father's house, and accompanied by her aunt Bianca and another companion, proceeded to the chapel of the Porziuncula to meet Francis. There, her hair was cut, and she exchanged her rich gown for a plain robe and veil.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_of_Assisi) Peace, Matt H. ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion