medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 11/22/11, Robert Kraft wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 1:46 AM, John Dillon wrote: [in part]
> >>and i've always loved that left shoulder on the figure on the right, almost as
> >>much as the loverly-coiffed lower doo on this Old Greybeard
> >>
> >>http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1304066263_city-nonresonant0057.jpg.
> >Who seems to me to be Arsenius the Great. What do others think?
>
> He's holding a rotulus (anachronistic vertical scroll), as is the figure on the right, which often is found in depictions of prophets. The writing on the right seems legible, but not enough for me to decipher.
>
_Rotuli_ are not exclusive to prophets. Holy Hymnographers may also hold them, as Joseph the Hymnographer and Cosmas the Poet do in this fresco in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1301589828_old-nagorichno-039.jpg
And so may Desert Fathers, as do Anthony of Egypt and Euthymius the Great in this fresco in the church of the Peribleptos (Sv. Climent Novi) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/yc4e79f
Or as do Euthymius the Great and Arsenius the Great in this fresco in the church of the Ascension in the Mileševa monastery in Serbia:
http://www.srpskoblago.org/Archives/Mileseva/Details/w2-n1n2/large/l1-1-2.jpg
Or as do Arsenius the Great and Paul of Thebes (recognizable through his iconography) in this fresco in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-03/1301589892_old-nagorichno-035.jpg
Or as do the five Desert Fathers this array in the lower register of this fresco in the very church at Nerezi about which we've been talking:
http://www.orthodoxy-icons.com/uploads/posts/2011-04/1304066568_city-nonresonant0129.jpg
Quid plura?
Best again,
John Dillon
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