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Herewith links to the two parts of an earlier (2010) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 19. August (including, in pt. 1, St. Magnus 'of Trani'; St. Bartholomew of Simeri; St. Louis of Toulouse and, in pt. 2, St. Oswin of Deira; St. Sebaldus of Nürnberg; Bl. Leo II of La Cava):
http://tinyurl.com/9bjplso
http://tinyurl.com/9tpubfz


Further to Magnus 'of Trani':

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'A twelfth-century fresco in that crypt depicts M.'s laying to rest at Fondi' please read ' A twelfth-century fresco in that crypt depicts M.'s laying to rest in Anagni after his translation from Veroli'. This is the final painting in a sequence that begins to the viewer's left of the crypt's main apse, continues across the lower register of the apse frescoes, and ends on the wall to the viewer's right of that apse. It starts with a depiction of pagans burning M.'s cross, followed by a scene of M.'s martyrdom in the vicinity of Fondi:
http://tinyurl.com/3lqmu49
The sequence continues across the apse with scenes of M.'s translation from Fondi to Veroli:
http://tinyurl.com/4yjoxle
of his causing the death of horses belonging to Muslims who were occupying Veroli:
http://tinyurl.com/3ha4287
of the Muslim king Muca's release of M.'s body for transportation to Anagni:
http://tinyurl.com/3bjklav
and of M.'s arrival at Anagni:
http://tinyurl.com/3pqfc9p
http://tinyurl.com/3hqhu7f
The sequence then ends with that depiction of M.'s laying to rest in Anagni:
http://tinyurl.com/5lrjb3
All the paintings in this sequence are by the First Master of (the crypt of) Anagni, assisted by others in his workshop. The First Master used to be dated to the earlier thirteenth century but his work in this crypt now is usually assigned to the years around 1179 (the date of the cathedral's consecration by Alexander III). The paintings in the crypt (which also include famous scenes from the Apocalypse) were restored in the later nineteenth century and again -- extensively -- in the late twentieth century. In order of appearance, three relatively recent, book-length treatments of them are:
Giammaria, Gioacchino, ed., _Un universo di simboli. Gli affreschi della cripta nella cattedrale di Anagni_ (Roma: Viella, 2001).
Cappelletti, Lorenzo, _Gli affreschi della cripta anagnina. Iconologia_ (Roma: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2002; Miscellanea historiae pontificiae, vol. 65).
Bianchi, Alessandro, ed., _Il restauro della Cripta di Anagni_ (Roma: Istituto Centrale per il Restauro -- Artemide Edizioni, 2003). 

An illustrated, Italian-language site on the much rebuilt monastery of San Magno in Fondi (LT) in southern Lazio, recently restored with funding from Regione Lazio and its Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Aurunci and now (since 2007) open to the public:
http://www.monasterosanmagno.it/storia/index.htm
Another exterior view of the monastery's very early sixteenth-century church:
http://tinyurl.com/8qq9hjw
In 2006 remains of a medieval apse and transept were found beneath the fabric of the present church. Herewith a view of portraits of saints in that apse:
http://www.crescereinsiemefondi.it/images/affreschi_Abside.jpg?703


Further to Louis of Toulouse:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, several of the links to views of Naples' basilica di San Lorenzo Maggiore no longer function. Herewith a revised set:
http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/uantco.jpg
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/ef537787.html
http://www.difiorefotografi.it/public/sanlorenzo.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/gb7fz
http://tinyurl.com/36ufzsm
http://tinyurl.com/5ux6zr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7253589@N08/2257510924
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/988d6605.html

In the same notice, several of the links to views, etc. of Naples' basilica di Santa Chiara likewise no longer function. Herewith a revised set:
http://tinyurl.com/6y8ke5
http://tinyurl.com/cqtzkez
http://tinyurl.com/cjkgojr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/byray/2272134333/lightbox/
http://www.viaggiscoop.it/foto/207/3584/28661.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/bnj92bu
http://tinyurl.com/c9mhlyn
http://www.turizmus.vein.hu/napoly/nap_ph10.html
http://tinyurl.com/34mroy9
In the same paragraph, for 'Sancia of Majorca' please read 'Bl. Sancia of Mallorca'.

In the same notice's following paragraph, the link to a view of the reliquary of St. Louis of Toulouse at Santa Chiara in Naples is not working at the moment. A thumbnail of it is at bottom right here:
http://tinyurl.com/8r9vuma
Bl. Sancia's now empty arm reliquary of St. Louis of Toulouse in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/arm-reliquary-saint-louis-toulouse

In the same notice's 'Other portraits of L.', the link to a view of the painting by Tommaso del Mazza of Louis of Toulouse and John the Evangelist no longer functions.

In the same notice's 'Other portraits of L.', add to the links for Donatello's statue of Louis of Toulouse in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce in Florence this well illustrated, Italian-language page on the work's very recent restoration:
http://tinyurl.com/99sr3wt

In the same notice's 'Other portraits of L.', the first link to a view of Donatello's statue of Louis of Toulouse on the main altar of the basilica del Santo in Padua no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/padova/2altar03.jpg

In the same notice's 'Other portraits of L.', the two links to smaller views (with less glare) of Piero della Francesca's fresco of him in the Pinacoteca comunale in Sansepolcro (AR) no longer function. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/8z2q289

In the same notice's 'Other portraits of L.', the first of the two links to views of Tilman Riemenschneider's statue of this saint in the Louis of Toulouse Altar in Rothenburg ob der Tauber's Stadtpfarrkirche St. Jakob no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/120b55/
A similar view (the earlier notice has a still functioning link to a much closer view of the statue):
http://tinyurl.com/9hl4nzd
A bonus (of a sort): views of two of the panel paintings depicting Louis of Toulouse on the same altar: 
http://tinyurl.com/8dzwbrs
http://tinyurl.com/9hl4nzd

Yet further representations of Louis of Toulouse:

Louis of Toulouse (at right) in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (1320) by Ugolino da Siena now in the Museum of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24349544@N04/5561836647
Detail view (Louis):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artexplorer/5561833291/lightbox/

Louis of Toulouse in a later fifteenth-century (third quarter) fresco by Lorentino d'Arezzo in Arezzo's basilica di San Francesco:
http://tinyurl.com/9e9cj28 

Louis of Toulouse in a late fourteenth-century limestone sculptural element from Lombardy offered for sale at Sotheby's in 2009 (view and description at bottom of the page):
http://tinyurl.com/969atrf
Enlarged view:
http://tinyurl.com/8qjmy9k

TAN (just too late for this list but too good to miss): Tintoretto's painting (oil on canvas; ca. 1553) of a very young Louis of Toulouse together with St. George and the Princess of Trebizond (Louis modestly averting his gaze), now in Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia:
http://tinyurl.com/9sjftlg


Further to Sebaldus of Nürnberg:

In that earlier post's notice of this saint, the second of the two links to views of an interior statue of him as a pilgrim no longer functions.

In the same notice, the link to a view of a mid-fifteenth-century devotional image in Nürnberg's St. Sebalduskirche no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://enid.b.uib.no/?page_id=452

In the same notice, the link to a page of _Vidimus_, no. 12, no longer functions. Use this instead (the matter on the Sebalduskirche is rather far down on the page):
http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-12/news/


Today (19. August) is also the feast day of:

Bertulfus of Bobbio (d. 642). Bertulfus was the third abbot of St. Columbanus' foundation at Bobbio in the Appennines southwest of Piacenza. We know about him chiefly from his mid-seventh-century Vita by Jonas of Bobbio (BHL 1311). Of noble birth and a native of Metz, he entered the monastery under abbot St. Attalas, whom he succeeded in 627. In the following year, faced with a demand by the bishop of Tortona that his house submit to the latter's authority, he traveled to Rome and obtained from pope Honorius I a privilege putting the abbey directly under papal supervision (this is said to be the earliest certain example of the creation of an exempt abbey). It was at his behest that Jonas wrote his Vita of St. Columbanus. Bertulfus was succeeded by abbot St. Bobulenus; his remains repose in the abbey's crypt. Herewith two views of his Lombard-period carved tomb cover there:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/5/55/S._Bertulfo_sepolcro.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/8lqdy22

Best,
John Dillon

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