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yrs, tom ault
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:18:21 -0400
Cecil T Ault <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> HI, John. This is just a quick note to thank you for your
>pains-taking efforts and expertise on matters architectural. Your
>latest submission is a jewel and I saved in my file. You have been a
>great source of information and inspiration to my students. May I
>have your mailing address? Incidentally, we visited Sta. Maria
>Novella in Florence as usual and still cannot find a good
>reproduction of the murals in the Strozzi Chapel. I still have to
>e-mail you sent me but I cannot read the inscriptions or make out
>parts of the map. Do you know a printed source I could purchase in
>which these details
> are clear? Also, do you know any other "Maps of Hell" that might
>contribute towards a group study of Drante and his sources? yrs, tom
>ault
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:08:26 -0500
> John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Thursday, August 18, 2005, at 10:10 pm, Phyllis wrote:
>>
>>> Today (19. August) is the feast day of:
>>
>>> Sebald (8th cent.?) ... Sources as
>>> early as 1072 recognized S. as the patron saint of Nurnberg.
>>
>> One could spend a lot of time on Nürnberg's Sebalduskirche, begun in
>> the 1230s as a "romanesque" structure but already showing "gothic"
>> elements (e.g., the polygonal west choir) prior to its consecration
>>in
>> 1273; continued in that syle from 1309 (towers, expanded side
>>aisles)
>> into the later fourteenth century (east choir, 1379) and beyond
>>(late
>> gothic decor into the sixteenth century). Here are a few views:
>>
>> EXTERIOR:
>> West facade:
>> http://tinyurl.com/dw7mx
>> http://tinyurl.com/ceoea
>>
>> Last Judgment portal (detail):
>> http://www.baukunst-nuernberg.de/sebald_weltgericht.jpg
>>
>> North side with Mary portal:
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/74/Kirche-fin.jpg
>> http://tinyurl.com/82ems
>>
>> Mary portal (tympanum):
>> http://hvanilla2.web.infoseek.co.jp/nuernberg/image/nuernberg31.jpg
>>
>> East choir:
>> http://tinyurl.com/cwonf
>>
>> INTERIOR:
>> Various views:
>> http://tinyurl.com/bvzb3
>> http://germany.archiseek.com/bavaria/nuremberg/st_sebaldus_interior.html
>> TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/bu66l
>>
>> Sebaldus shrine:
>> http://hvanilla2.web.infoseek.co.jp/nuernberg/image/nuernberg33.jpg
>> http://www.molbio.uoregon.edu/~henscheid/dland/31aug-14.jpg
>> http://hvanilla2.web.infoseek.co.jp/nuernberg/image/nuernberg50.jpg
>>
>> This church was heavily damaged in the bombing of 1945 that
>>devastated
>> the Old City of Nürnberg. Here's a view of it among the ruins:
>> http://www.wi2.uni-erlangen.de/NueTour/pic/zerst05.jpg
>> Much of what one sees is restoration work, completed in the 1950s.
>>
>> ############
>>
>>> Louis of Toulouse (d. 1297) Louis was the younger son of Charles
>>> II of Sicily.
>>
>> And here he is, in Naples' Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, offering
>>a
>> crown to his brother, Robert, king of Sicily (painting by Simone
>> Martini, prob. 1317):
>> http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/s/simone/4altars/1louis/2s_louis.jpg
>>
>> Best,
>> John Dillon
>>
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