medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, at 2:11 am, I wrote:
> Lawrence of Rome (d. 258?).
> Some visual representations of L. outside of Rome:
> b) L. (at left) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century altar area
> mosaics of Saint Sophia in Kyiv/Kiev:
> http://tinyurl.com/2a2fcc5
Clearly not "at left" (a specification left over from a previous image of this representation of L.).
I had meant to include a link to a later portrait of L. from the Orthodox world, namely this fresco of ca. 1300 (attributed to Manuel Panselinos) in the Protaton Church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/25gmlow
Not very well preserved, unfortunately, is this depiction of L. in flames, at lower right in a set of calendar scenes for July and August, in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) of 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/2bmxnww
A few other images of L. that got left on the cutting room floor:
L. (third from left) as depicted in the later twelfth-century mosaics of the cathedral of Santa Maria la Nuova at Monreale:
http://tinyurl.com/2ecdu5e
L. (at right; at left, St. Ursula) as depicted by Simone Martini in a predella panel of his St. Catherine polyptych of 1319 now in Pisa's Museo nazionale di San Matteo:
http://tinyurl.com/23f2wdn
The altarpiece as a whole:
http://tinyurl.com/2yo6w7
L. as depicted by Giotto di Bondone in a panel painting (betw. 1320 and 1325) now in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/z_panel/3polypty/13polypt.jpg
> o) Sts. Stephen and L. as portrayed in an earlier fifteenth-century
> terracotta relief (betw. 1428 and 1435) in the old sacristy of
> Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:
> http://tinyurl.com/25e5ef3
The relief is by Donatello.
> Some dedications to L. outside Rome:
Two perhaps less appealing examples that got left on the cutting room floor but that are notable for artwork they contain:
The originally twelfth-century chies(ett)a di San Lorenzo at Tenno (TN) in Trentino - Alto Adige:
http://www.comune.tenno.tn.it/sanlorenzo.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2bv4nh2
I've not been able to find any Web-based views of this church's late twelfth-century frescoes of L. Does someone on the list have any to share?
The originally thirteenth-century (1240) chiesa/oratorio di San Lorenzo in/al Ponte in San Gimignano (SI) in Tuscany:
http://tinyurl.com/2e2gt6l
http://tinyurl.com/243qtm4
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Lorenzo_al_Ponte
This church is home to an early fourteenth-century (ca. 1310) fresco of the BVM in glory attributed to Simone Martini (and gussied up by Cenni di Francesco in 1413):
http://tinyurl.com/2wd7xlf
http://tinyurl.com/2uaxrab
Best again,
John Dillon
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