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Today (4. July) is the day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology of
the prophet Hosea (8th cent. BCE). Herewith a few medieval and early
Renaissance images:
Detail, window of Old Testament prophets (mid 12th-cent.), Augsburg
cathedral:
http://www.hhog.de/backoffice/mod/netmedia_image/data/244_photo_11.jpg
larger context:
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/11c400/
Detail, north facade, Maestro Mateo's stone choir (ca. 1200;
reconstructed late 1990s), cathedral of Santiago de Compostela:
http://www.fbarrie.org/fundacion/webcoro/iconogra/8.htm
larger context:
http://www.fbarrie.org/fundacion/webcoro/iconogra/pue-htm/3b1.htm
http://www.fbarrie.org/fundacion/webcoro/iconogra/m8.htm
There's a brief, English-language account of the reconstruction in this
review of a CD-ROM documenting the project:
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/reviews/gerrard.htm
Prophet Hosea window (1225-30), south transept clerestory, Chartres
cathedral:
http://tinyurl.com/fbb4w
(expandable; use icons at upper left)
Detail, rose window (ca. 1235), north transept, Chartres cathedral:
http://perso.orange.fr/.diocese.chartres/avent/jour-12/profet12.gif
In slightly larger context, at top here:
http://tinyurl.com/fqckw
Detail, predella, Duccio di Buoninsegna's Maiesta' Altarpiece (1308-11),
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena:
http://tinyurl.com/jzwkg
expanded:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/buoninse/maesta/predel_f/pre_f_m.jpg
Detail, window of Old Testament prophets (1325-1339), abbey church of
St.-Ouen (Somme):
http://www.rouen-histoire.com/Saint-Ouen/Fen_205_1.htm
larger context:
http://www.rouen-histoire.com/Saint-Ouen/Fen_205.htm
illumination (Hosea with the five kings; Gomer restored to Hosea while
the adulteress looks on [my guess]):
http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/free/Pics/Hosea1.gif
The site this image comes from:
http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/
merely says that this is from a fourteenth-century picture bible. Can
anyone provide a more precise citation?
Detail, vault frescoes (late 14th-cent.), Baptistery of Parma:
http://www.cattedrale.parma.it/img/voltabatt/79-osea_Z.jpg
For other views of these frescoes, go here:
http://www.cattedrale.parma.it/page.asp?IDCategoria=501&IDSezione=2450
and left-click on individual segments of the diagram
The Prophet Hosea and the Delphic Sibyl, fresco by Pinturicchio in the
Hall of the Sibyls (early 1490s), Borgia Apartments, Vatican Palace:
http://pintura.aut.org/SearchProducto?Produnum=26506
expanded:
http://217.75.242.165:8080/4DPict?file=20&rec=26.506&field=2
Best,
John Dillon
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