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Today (27. May 2012), in the Roman church and in others that employ its calculation of the date of Easter, is the feast of Pentecost. Herewith a few pertinent images:
The earlier twelfth-century Pentecost cupola mosaic in the basilica cattedrale di San Marco in Venice:
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/6sanmarc/2cuwest2.jpg
A page of expandable views of the remains of the depiction of Pentecost in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1263 and 1270 or slightly later) in the altar area of the church of the Holy Trinity in the Sopoćani monastery at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/cfjfvga
Pentecost as depicted in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'Images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 50r):
http://tinyurl.com/cjohbap
An expandable view of Pentecost as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 61r):
http://tinyurl.com/c2d8uyk
Pentecost as depicted by Duccio di Buoninsegna in an early fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1308-1311) in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/crown_v/cro_v_h.jpg
Pentecost as depicted by Giotto di Bondone in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1320-1325) in the National Gallery, London:
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giotto/z_panel/3polypty/7penteco.jpg
Pentecost as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 157, fol. 240r):
http://tinyurl.com/chutl45
Pentecost as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century (1456) Armenian-language Gospels (Paris, BnF, ms. Arménien 18, fol. 27r):
http://tinyurl.com/cdvgy49
An expandable view of Pentecost as depicted in a late fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1489) by the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits, Sale 7887 / Lot 8 at Christie's:
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5391245
Herewith a link to an earlier 'Saints of the day' for 27. May (including St. Julius of Durostorum; St. Restituta of Sora; St. Restitutus of Rome; St. Eutropius of Orange; St. Augustine of Canterbury; St. Bruno of Würzburg; St. Gausbert of Montsalvy):
http://tinyurl.com/7darbhy
Further to Restituta of Sora:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the fourth paragraph should read:
The primary locus of R.'s cult remains the basilica di Santa Restituta in Sora (FR), rebuilt after Frederick II destroyed the town in 1229 and rebuilt again after earthquakes in 1654 and 1915. Here's a view of the facade of what's now a neo-romanesque structure preserving in its facade an earlier thirteenth-century main portal, an inscription bearing a privilege of Charles II from 1292 removing Sora from baronial control and declaring it a demesne city, and (above that inscription) an ancient relief, found a few kilometers north of Sora, showing the goddess Isis surmounted by a lunar disc (alas, the view doesn't do justice to any of these details):
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6773827.jpg
In that notice's final paragraph, for 'droppeded' please read 'dropped'.
Further to Eutropius of Orange:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the link to a view of Eutropius operating a miracle as depicted in the Prayer Book of Charles the Bold at the Getty (fol. 41v) no longer functions. Use instead this link to an expandable view of that illumination:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1937
In the same notice, the two links to views of the remains of the substructure of the Roman capitolium on Orange's colline Saint-Eutrope no longer function. In this view those remains are discernible in the vegetation just above center:
http://tinyurl.com/c6jxy88
Further to Gausbert of Montsalvy:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the penultimate link to the views of the église Notre-Dame at Bes-Bédène no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Bez-bedene.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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