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Yesterday (23. September) was also the feast day of:
Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Baptist (d. 1st cent.).
Not having had any visuals to offer in connection with today's St.
Greca, I thought I'd share some on these two perhaps more familiar saints.
1. Venice's Chiesa dei Santi Zaccaria e Atanasio, better known simply
as San Zaccaria. Founded in the ninth century and housing what are said
to be Z.'s remains, this structure has had a complicated history. Two
brief, English-language accounts are here:
http://tinyurl.com/phrmw
http://tinyurl.com/p6sma
Another, this time in Italian:
http://www.invenicetoday.com/tour/chiese/castello/sanzaccaria.htm
Views from above (the latter from across the top of San Marco):
http://tinyurl.com/z295p
http://ruttmann.com/Images/Venice%202003/pages/DSCN2418_JPG.htm
A satellite view (loads slowly) showing the ambulatory around the apse:
http://www.guestinvenice.com/map/?placeid=72
Facade views (cloister and belltower at right):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Venice48.jpg
http://citysnapper.org/chantrey/italy/photos/2001071153venice.jpg
Lower part of the facade:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/a8e92ea2.html
Facade under scaffolding in early 2005:
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/1edfc6/
Belltower (thirteenth-century):
http://tinyurl.com/zvyho
Interior:
http://www.provincia.venezia.it/querini/gallery/Pages/XIX_XX/moia.htm
High altar (NB: the date given here is this site's master date for the
building as a whole):
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/226e8378.html
Relief (Virgin enthroned), over former entrance to the adjacent convent:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/0d3047ea.html
Restored polyptych in the Cappella di San Tarasio:
http://ruttmann.com/Images/Venice%202003/pages/DSCN2383_JPG.htm
That view was taken in 2003. Here's the same piece during restoration
(begun in 2000):
http://tinyurl.com/ntpug
Ninth-century remnant of mosaic floor, Cappella di San Tarasio, details:
eagles:
http://tinyurl.com/h9mpz
deer:
http://tinyurl.com/fay9o
Crypt:
http://tinyurl.com/f4nf2
http://www.heduin.com/venise/Pages/grand/crypte%20san%20saccaria.jpg
2. Some paintings.
Giotto, scenes from the Protevangelium Jacobi (ca. 1305), Cappella dei
Scrovegni, Padua: Mary brought to the temple; the Miracle of the Rods
and the Dove; Mary's betrothal to Joseph (Z. bearded and in red cloak):
http://12koerbe.de/euangeleion/giotto08.jpg
http://12koerbe.de/euangeleion/giotto09.jpg
http://12koerbe.de/euangeleion/giotto10.jpg
http://12koerbe.de/euangeleion/giotto11.jpg
Same, the Visitation (Lk 1:39-45):
http://santiebeati.it/immagini/Original/76150/76150B.JPG
Giotto, The Annunciation to Zachary (ca. 1313-14), Cappella Peruzzi,
Chiesa di Santa Croce, Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/s_croce/1peruzzi/baptis1.jpg
Same, Birth and Naming of John the Baptist:
http://keptar.demasz.hu/arthp/art/g/giotto/s_croce/peruzzi/baptis2.jpg
Fra Angelico, The Naming of John the Baptist (1334-35), Convento di San
Marco, Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/m6llh
Many depictions of the Visitation:
http://membres.lycos.fr/eikon26/3JCheb/Luk0139_Visitation/index.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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