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Here is a rather detailed description of the scene; the photo offered with
it was much too small to make out any detail. Curiously no mention is made
of Saint Augustine's scroll, although those of other saints are mentioned.
They are holding various citations from Augustine's sermons. I offer this to
jog perhaps someone else's memory:
"Il secondo affresco rappresenta Sant'Agostino seduto in cattedra al centro
della scena. Egli č collocato pių in alto rispetto alle figure femminili
sedute in scanni che rappresentano: a destra le Arti del Quadrivio e del
Trivio; a sinistra le Virtų teologali e cardinali. Ai lati della cattedra,
sei busti di santi sostengono dei cartigli con passi dei sermoni
agostiniani. Essi sono, a destra, San Gregorio Magno, San Girolamo, San
Bernardo di Chiaravalle; a sinistra, Sant'Ambrogio e altri due santi non
identificati. Vicina a questi č raffigurata una donna che simboleggia
l'Astrologia: č appoggiata su un'ampia circonferenza nella quale sono
raffigurati i sette cicli del sistema tolemaico. Essa faceva da pendant' ad
una seconda figura, forse la Teologia, oggi andata perduta. I riquadri sono
delimitati da cornici che hanno decorazioni geometriche."
MG
>From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Enquiry about Latin text in painting Trionfo di s.
>Agostina in S.Franceso Church in Pistoia, It.
>Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:56:23 -0700
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>I'm not having any luck finding the image on the net. Can you provide a
>link or send me an image privately?
>
>DW
>
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>From: "Marijim Thoene" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 5:10 PM
>Subject: [M-R] Enquiry about Latin text in painting Trionfo di s. Agostina
>in S.Franceso Church in Pistoia, It.
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> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> > Dear Scholars, First I apologize for asking a question that deals with
> > art in the Renaissance! It is a fresco of St. Augustine tho! I'm
> > hoping you might be able to tell me what the Latin text is in the
> > scroll held by St. Augustine, in a painting, called attributed to an
> > anonymous artist known as "Maestro della Cappella Bracciolini", dated
> > primo quarto del sec. XV, in the church of St. Francis in Pistoia, It.
> > The painting is similar to "The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas"
> > (1366-68) by Andrea Bonaiuti in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria
> > Novella in Florence. Thomas holds a scroll with a Latin text which
> > I've discovered to be a passage from Wisdom. Both contain
> > personifications of the Seven Liberal Arts. I've only found one
> > article on the work, in the journal Prospettiva (N. 48, 1987) and the
> > text is not discussed. Any info would be much appreciated. Many
> > thanks. Marijim Thoene, DMA
> > On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Jim Bugslag wrote:
> >
> > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > > culture
> > >
> > > Dear Listmembers,
> > > In a 1985 article, Beryl Smalley referred to a study on "the two
> > > swords" being
> > > worked on by Gerard Caspary of Berkeley and referred to his
> > > "preliminary study"
> > > published as _Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords_
> > > (Berkeley, 1979).
> > > Does anyone know whether Dr. Caspary eventually completed this study?
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Jim Bugslag
> > >
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