medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
As has already been noted in this thread, some orders extended the convention of full haloes for saints to beati whose saintliness they were actively affirming. Examples already mentioned include the Augustinian Agostino Novello, shown here in the famous altarpiece by Simone Martini (ca. 1333-36) :
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/s/simone/4altars/5agostin/1agostin.jpg
and the Carmelite Albert of Trapani, shown here in a painting of ca. 1430 by Filippo Lippi:
http://www.wga.hu/html/l/lippi/filippo/1430/1madonna.html
http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/immagine.php?id=38
Is there any reason to believe that Dominicans could not be equally latitudinarian in this regard? If they were, then one might reduce "loads of Dominican beati" to just those Dominican beati whose causes the order was actively pursuing and/or who may have enjoyed a contemporary cult within its Roman province.
Best again,
John Dillon
PS: The Dominican worthies portrayed in roundels beneath Fra Angelico's fresco of the Crucifixion in the chapter room of San Marco in Florence include several whose haloes are full rather than radiate (among the latter, BTW, are the portraits of Jordan of Saxony and of Nicola Paglia I noted earlier). These were once attributed to assistants, but William Hood, _Fra Angelico at San Marco_ (Yale U.P., 1993), 187-88, has no difficulty in assigning them to A. himself. Apart from Dominic, two (Ramond of Peņafort, Vincent Ferrer) have what appear to be full haloes:
http://tinyurl.com/yg3wlv
But these may be due to repainting after their canonizations. For the full list, see Hood, op. cit., p. 317, n. 66.
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