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Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 23. April (including St. George of Lydda; St. Adalbert of Prague; St. George of Suelli):
http://tinyurl.com/7h6s7vq
Further to George of Lydda:
This George is also widely known as George of Cappadocia.
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the second of the links to views of the Rotunda of St. George in Thessaloniki no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/7m9y5gu
and add these views of the interior of the apse:
http://tinyurl.com/8aa3jy7
http://tinyurl.com/76qkk56
In the same notice, the links to a ground plan of the Rotunda of St. George in Thessaloniki and to a view of George as depicted in an eleventh-century icon at Vatopedi no longer function.
Add this link to George (at lower right; at lower left, St. Theodore of Amasea) as depicted in a later sixth- or seventh-century icon in encaustic in the St. Catherine's monastery in St. Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai governorate:
http://tinyurl.com/89ovesa
Add this link to George (at left; at right, St. Eustachius) as depicted on a wing of the tenth-century Harbaville Triptych in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/8ay4cy8(http://tinyurl.com/3m3sj6" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3m3sj6
Add these views of the church of St. George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, frescoed in 1191:
http://www.fidanoski.ca/Macedonia/Kurbinovo/kurbinovo01.JPG
http://www.fidanoski.ca/Macedonia/Kurbinovo/kurbinovo02.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/7kgn8lr
Add this view of a votive painting, funded by a horse tamer and variously dated from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, of a mounted George in the narthex of the church of the Panagia Phorbiotissa at Asinou (Nicosia prefecture) in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://tinyurl.com/7jblmoz
Add this link to George (at left; at right, St. Demetrius) as depicted in a thirteenth-century mosaic in the katholikon of the Xenophontos monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/7f9rbot
Replace the link to George as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki with this:
http://tinyurl.com/6msrbfd
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/6mef6m5
Add this view of George (upper register; lower register: Sts. John of Damascus and Ephraem the Syrian) as depicted on an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting now in St. Catherine's monastery in St. Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai governorate:
http://tinyurl.com/3ucnhtl(http://tinyurl.com/5ctk4u" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/5ctk4u
Add these links to views of George as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church dedicated to him at Staro Nagorièane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/78vfd4c
http://tinyurl.com/7bhf4v5
http://tinyurl.com/852vrkt
http://tinyurl.com/7qvu86e
http://tinyurl.com/8xvwpqx
http://www.worldisround.com/pphotos/26/339/178.jpg
Add these links to two views (the smaller in better light) of George as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the parekklesion of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/04/04/images/byzantine1.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21711359@N08/3923046478/lightbox/
Still in that previous post's notice of this saint, at item i) in the visuals for George's cult in "the East", for 'Pantocrator' please read 'Holy Ascension' and add
this link to George (at left) as depicted elsewhere in the same church:
http://tinyurl.com/3bqrlqr
In the same notice's visuals for George in one part of "the West", add between items b) and c) this link to George (in roundel at top) as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century
mosaics of the basilica di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa
della Martorana) in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/23oba3r
In the same set of "Western" visuals, at item f), the second link to views of the chiesa di San Giorgio in Campobasso no longer functions. There are other views of this church here:
http://tinyurl.com/54zjr5
In the same set of visuals, at item g) the statement about Italia nell'Arte Medievale being off-line happily is no longer valid.
In the same set of visuals, at item i) both links no longer function. Use this for the fresco of George and the dragon in the chiesa di Santa Maria ad Cryptas in Fossa (AQ):
http://tinyurl.com/88mbx9x
and this for the first of the two pages of views of the frescoes:
http://tinyurl.com/73laaqd
In the same set of visuals, at item l) the link to George and the dragon as depicted in the church of San Giorgio in Lemine at Almenno San Salvatore (BG) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/762cpjj
Views of other of this church's frescoes:
http://tinyurl.com/892rt96
Views of the church:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_in_Lemine
In the visuals for George elsewhere in medieval Europe, the second link to the views of George and the dragon as depicted in Denmark's Nibe kirke no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/6payhbk
An example of a regional oddity: the Kirche St. Georg in Thal bei Tuntenhausen (Lkr. Rosenheim) in Bavaria, occupying the lower storey of a building whose upper storey has a separate exterior entrance and was always destined for other purposes:
http://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/Page002657.aspx#gal1190
A German-language page on such churches (mostly twelfth-century) in Bavaria:
http://tinyurl.com/76wrc7v
Further to George of Suelli:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add these links to interior views of Suelli's thirteenth- to sixteenth-century ex-cattedrale di San Pietro:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40981296@N03/4057557777/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vorticeassurdo/3414717159/lightbox/
In the same notice, the link to a view of one of San Pietro's late medieval chapels no longer functions.
Add this interior view of the older cappella di San Giorgio di Suelli annexed to Suelli's ex-cattedrale di San Pietro:
http://tinyurl.com/bq3jeju
Best,
John Dillon
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