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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture As some will already have observed, at item c) in today's post the image linked to at Hosios Loukas, though certainly very nice, depicts the Presentation in the Temple. Herewith a link to a view of the corresponding mosaic depicting the Nativity: http://tinyurl.com/zvauzxq Apologies for my inattention (copying links seriatim can be fraught with minor peril). I'm fond of this version of the scene in part because the artist has chosen to depict the water around Jesus at his washing in a way strikingly reminiscent of images of Jesus' baptism, thus alluding to that later and spiritually more significant purification at the opening of the next stage of Jesus' life. Season's greetings, John Dillon ________________________________________ From: John Dillon Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2016 12:03:20 AM To: medieval-religion Subject: Feast - A Celebration for the Day (December 25): the Nativity of Jesus Christ A few period-pertinent images of the Nativity of Jesus: a) as depicted in a seventh-century encaustic icon in the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai in St. Catherine (South Sinai governorate): http://tinyurl.com/cf48lpe b) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 271): http://tinyurl.com/2cx5b29 c) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored betw. 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis: http://tinyurl.com/jsuwwm2 d) as depicted in the eleventh- or early twelfth-century frescoes in the Karanlık kilise (or Dark Church) at Göreme (Nevşehir province) in Turkey: http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566359 e) as portrayed in relief on the earlier twelfth-century baptismal font in the Stiftskirche St. Bonifatius in Freckenhorst (Lkr. Warendorf) in Westphalia: http://bonifatius-lambertus.de/s/cc_images/cache_1602421702.jpg?t=1274258240 f) as portrayed in relief in the probably mid-twelfth-century sculptures of the west portal of the basilica abbaziale di San Silvestro I papa in Nonantola: 1) the BVM on her bed; the Washing of Jesus: http://tinyurl.com/pgv23vp 2) Jesus in the manger: http://tinyurl.com/oyemkmu 3) the Annunciation to the Shepherds: http://tinyurl.com/hgc58ay 4) Sheep: http://tinyurl.com/z7vrqss g) The Nativity as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century mosaics of the chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo: http://tinyurl.com/ocxmqc5 http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=3701 h) as depicted in one of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (ca. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 10v, scs. 2A and 2B): 1) the BVM on her bed; Jesus in the manger: http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A010v_min_a2 2) the Annunciation to the Shepherds: http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A010v_min_b2 i) as depicted in a late twelfth-century fresco (1191) in the church of St. George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: http://tinyurl.com/pw7wmfx Detail view: http://tinyurl.com/qgkracm j) as depicted in the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Claricia Psalter from the abbey of Sts. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.26, fol.8r, detail): https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8210/8285731588_2c906d1f17_b.jpg k) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century Cistercian psalter of upper Rhine origin (ca. 1260; Besançon, Bibliothèques municipales, ms. 54, fol. 7v): http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht5/IRHT_083214-p.jpg l) as depicted in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 21r): http://tinyurl.com/7bksgvy m) as depicted by Jacopo Torriti in a late thirteenth-century mosaic (signed, 1296) in the apse of Rome's basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore: http://tinyurl.com/z5t94zz n) as depicted by Giotto di Bondone in his early fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1305) in the Arena Chapel (Cappella dei Scrovegni) in Padua: http://tinyurl.com/h76c34k o) as depicted (panel at lower right) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 22r): http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/22r.jpg p) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1326-1350; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 6v): http://tinyurl.com/jmdrz4u q) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (ca. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 5r): http://tinyurl.com/j7sx348 r) The Nativity as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija: http://tinyurl.com/2fbgewt Expandable detail views are here: http://tinyurl.com/y94vpvl s) as depicted (left margin at bottom) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy of the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk (1340; Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. Gen. 8, fol. 8v): http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/sbs/0008/8v/0/Sequence-1030 t) The Nativity as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century icon (betw. 1401 and 1425) in the Rena Andreadis Collection in Athens: http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=2431 u) as depicted by Lorenzo Monaco in a predella panel of his earlier fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin (1413 or 1414) in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence: http://tinyurl.com/jo7bjwl v) as depicted by Beato Angelico in a mid-fifteenth-century fresco (ca. 1440-1441) in one of the cells in the convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco in Florence: http://www.wga.hu/art/a/angelico/09/cells/05_nativ.jpg w) as depicted by Dieric Bouts the Elder in a mid-fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1445) in the Museo del Prado in Madrid: http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bouts/dirk_e/altar/1tripti3.jpg x) as portrayed in high relief by Antonio Rossellino in a late fifteenth-century relief (1475) in the Piccolomini chapel of the chiesa di Sant'Anna dei Lombardi in Naples: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/42398413.jpg Detail view (much better for the power portion of this composition): http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/42398494.jpg y) as depicted by Sandro Botticelli in a late fifteenth-century panel painting (1500) in the National Gallery in London: http://tinyurl.com/zjq3pvb z) as portrayed by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut in a panel of the early sixteenth-century polychromed wooden principal altarpiece (completed, 1508) in the Stadtkirche St. Johannes und St. Martin in Schwabach: http://tinyurl.com/nth3v7n 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