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Thirteenth century, it says here:
http://www.portale-toscana.com/lucca_citta.php
and here (in Italian), in a description of the church I meant to cite in
the previous post:
http://www.itclucca.lu.it/interessanti/luccacittadarte/2id/S.FREDIA/SFREDIA.html
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/4d7lq
A perhaps better view of the mosaic is here:
http://web.genie.it/utenti/e/enigmagalgano/Galleria/galleria3/lucca.html
TinyURL for this:
http://tinyurl.com/6htkv
An aerial view of the church in its urban surround is here:
http://luccapro.cribecu.sns.it/IMG_FOT/PIE/PIE_F0301/PIE_F0301_B.JPG
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/3jbx6
That's from this page, which has some other views, including a fairly
good one of the architrave (12th-cent.) over the main entrance:
http://luccapro.cribecu.sns.it/ITA/PIE/PIE_S0036/gal.asp
F.'s Life (BHL 3174-3177k) has been studied in its various versions and
edited synoptically by Gabriele Zaccagnini, _Vita sancti Fridiani.
Contributi di storia e di agiografia lucchese medioevale_ (Lucca: Maria
Pacini Fazzi, 1989).
Best again,
John Dillon
On Sunday, March 20, 2005, at 5:24 pm, Diana Wright wrote:
> You got a date on that mosaic?
>
> DW
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 18. March
> > > A co-patron of Lucca, F. now reposes in the church named after him
> > (apparently not the first on this site), the golden mosaic of whose
> > facade is justly famous:
> > http://www.knowital.com/html/lucca_-_church_of_san_frediano.html
> > http://www.provincia.asti.it/edu/smgoria/sfrediano.htm
> >
> > And not to overlook its 12th-century baptismal font:
> > http://www.thais.it/scultura/sch00513.htm
> > http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/sch00513.htm
> >
> > Best,
> > John Dillon
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