medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 11:28 pm, I wrote:
> Today (24. June) is the feast day of:
>
> 1) The Nativity of John the Baptist, Forerunner of the Lord (d. 1st
> cent.)...
> In recent years "saints of the day" has used the feast of J.'s
> decollation (29. August) as a collecting point for medievally
> pertinent visuals of J. But today too provides an opportunity for
> subscribers to this list to chip in with favorite images of J. or with
> views of buildings dedicated to him, as Marjorie Greene did last year
> with a French-language virtual tour of the primatiale
> Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Lyon:
> http://cathedrale-lyon.cef.fr/visite_guidee/index.html
> And here's another from me: an early fifteenth-century icon of J. by
> Andrei Rublev, now in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow:
> http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=454
> Others, anyone?
Here's another: a twelfth-century relief, mounted on a wall above the baptismal font in the pieve di San Prospero at Collecchio (PR) in Emilia and showing J. baptizing Jesus (just in case you couldn't determine this from the relief's Greek-language legend Ή ВАПТΗΣΙΣ) in the Jordan, with the Holy Spirit above and an angel at right holding Jesus' robe:
http://tinyurl.com/n8mezh
The same composition in the Beloit College copy of the _Nuremburg Chronicle_ (1493):
http://tinyurl.com/mcdmzf
Best again,
John Dillon
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