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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Eleanor, You're very welcome. And quite right about Abraham and the souls about him. But one can be more specific: the soul actually at his bosom will be Lazarus (of Lazarus-and-Dives fame, not Lazarus of Bethany). See (e.g.) this earlier instance in the middle panel of an illumination in the eleventh-century Codex Aureus of Echternach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_des_Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis_001.jpg Best, John Dillon ________________________________________ From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Eleanor Flynn <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (March 25): The Good Thief (a.k.a. St. Dismas) medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear John Thank you for all the wonderful images and notes on such a regular basis. Re the Good thief images can I assume in image a) that the seated figure on the left of the good thief is Abraham with various souls in his bosom and crowded about him? Yours Eleanor Flynn > On 27 Mar 2016, at 6:16 AM, John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear all, at the risk of straining your forbearance herewith a re-sending, with corrections, of my recent post on the Good Thief (a.k.a. St. Dismas). When I sent it before I must have been more medication-groggy than I realised. > --JD > > > To omit from these Saints for the Day the Good Thief (Luke 23:39-43), medievally also familiar from the Gospel of Nicodemus (where he accompanies Christ in the Harrowing of Hell), would be a dismal thing to do. 25. March, once thought to be the anniversary of the Crucifixion, is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. Santa Croce in Gerusalemme at Rome appears to have at least two fragments of his cross, the one hanging to the left of the relics of the True Cross here: > http://www.christorchaos.com/images/Picture306.jpg > and this separately displayed relic: > http://www.rosaryworkshop.com/PHOTO-Rome-Crx-8.jpg > > > Some period-pertinent images of the Good Thief (a.k.a. St. Dismas); those from Crucifixion scenes show him differentiated from his fellow thief by more than mere position in the three crosses: > > a) as depicted (in Paradise, betw. the BVM and a cherub in the Gate of Heaven) in the probably originally late twelfth-century Last Judgement mosaic on the west wall of the nave (the counter-facade) in the basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello: > http://tinyurl.com/joau9po > Detail view (the Good Thief and the cherub in the Gate of Heaven): > http://tinyurl.com/jljxelf > > b) as depicted (upper register at left) in a Crucifixion scene in a later thirteenth-century psalter from England (Paris: BnF, ms. Latin 765, fol. 14r): > http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60005131/f29.item.zoom > > c) as depicted (detail of a Crucifixion scene) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo: > http://tinyurl.com/hljror6 > > d) as depicted (in Paradise, below the BVM; in a set of images of the Last Judgment) in the earlier fourteenth century frescoes (betw. 1335-1350) in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija: > http://tinyurl.com/ywfatd > An incomplete but larger view of this image of the Good Thief is here: > http://tinyurl.com/ydkxvqx > An even larger view (differently incomplete): > http://tinyurl.com/7c59lrp > > e) as depicted (upper register at left) in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco of the Crucifixion (ca. 1340; formerly attributed to Barna da Siena) in the chiesa collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta in San Gimignano (SI): > http://www.wga.hu/art/m/memmi/gimignan/5bay.jpg > > f) as depicted (upper register at left) by Pietro Lorenzetti in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting of the Crucifixion (1340s) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: > http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438605 > http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DP278472.jpg > > g) as depicted (at left in the Crucifixion scene at right; smiling]) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy, from the workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston, of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (1348; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 87r): > http://tinyurl.com/h6y3pm3 > > h) as depicted (upper register at left) in an early fifteenth-century panel painting of the Crucifixion (ca. 1420; from the now dismembered Rajhrad altarpiece) in the National Gallery in Prague: > http://tinyurl.com/gsrbpcm > Detail view (Good Thief): > http://image.pbs.org/poster_images/assets/404558.JPG.resize.710x399.jpg > > i) as depicted (upper register at left) by Hans von Tübingen in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting of the Crucifixion (1430) in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna: > http://tinyurl.com/hk3pbyw > > j) as depicted (at far left) in a Crucifixion scene in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of the _Speculum humanae salvationis_ in a French-language translation (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 188, fol. 28v): > http://tinyurl.com/hz9z9cq > > k) as depicted (upper register at far right; depiction of Paradise in a scene of the Harrowing of Hell) in a later fifteenth-century copy of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (1463; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 50, fol. 237v): > http://tinyurl.com/zvt9f43 > > l) as depicted (upper register at left) by Giovanni Canavesio in a late fifteenth-century fresco of the Crucifixion (betw. 1490 and 1492) in the chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines in La Brigue (Alpes-Maritimes): > http://tinyurl.com/h4efwp2 > Detail view (Good Thief): > http://tinyurl.com/ha4cbnx > > m) as depicted (upper register at left) by Gaudenzio Ferrari in an early sixteenth-century fresco of the Crucifixion (by 1513) in the chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie in Varallo Sesia (VC) in Piedmont: > http://tinyurl.com/gmzgtnh > Detail view (Good Thief): > http://tinyurl.com/hc5hwfb > > n) as depicted (upper register at left) in the central panel (Crucifixion) of an earlier sixteenth-century altarpiece (1524) in the Konradikapelle in the Münster in Konstanz: > http://tinyurl.com/zpf4y68 > > o) as depicted in a detail of the Crucifixion in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1532-1550 ) in the église paroissiale Saint-Sébastien in Plampinet, a locality of Névache (Hautes-Alpes): > http://tinyurl.com/zleclsr > > p) as depicted (upper register) by Laurent Le Sodec in the earlier sixteenth-century great Passion of Christ window (1539) in the église Saint-Yves in La Roche-Maurice (Finistère): > http://tinyurl.com/zzvtng6 > The window as a whole: > http://www.sprev.org/wp-content/uploads/37.-maitresse-vitre-vue-du-jube-768x1024.jpg > > Best, > John Dillon > ********************************************************************** 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