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To the links given below add between c) and d):
Gregory the Thaumaturge (lower register, second from right; after Sts. Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa and before St. Gregory of Agrigento) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century apse frescoes (ca. 1028 - ca. 1040) of the Panagia [ton] Chalkeon in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/b9abdkj
An expandable, grayscale view of that portrait is here:
http://tinyurl.com/bt6at35
Best,
John Dillon
On 11/17/12, I wrote:
> Further to Gregory the Thaumaturge:
>
> A revised set of links to portrayals of this saint:
>
> a) Gregory the Thaumaturge (at right; at left, St. Basil the Great) as depicted flanking the Theotokos on a tenth-century enameled cross from Constantinople now in the British Museum, London:
> http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/WF001733.html
>
> b) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. gr. 1613):
> http://tinyurl.com/3qvb8yn
>
> c) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
> http://tinyurl.com/33pgbpm
>
> d) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in a mid-eleventh-century mosaic in the cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv / Kiev:
> http://www.pravenc.ru/data/461/475/1234/i400.jpg
>
> e) Gregory the Thaumaturge (at lower left; at lower right, St. Gregory of Nazianzus) as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (ca. 1164) in the church of St. Panteleimon (Pantaleon) at Gorno Nerezi (Skopje municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> http://tinyurl.com/7o5bpdb
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/7k65f47
>
> f) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in an icon variously dated to the twelfth century (probably) and to the fourteenth, now in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg:
> http://tinyurl.com/22t8wzz
>
> g) Gregory the Thaumaturge (second from left in this panel) as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1260 and 1263) in the altar area of the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/yjz6t7j
>
> h) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century frescoes, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
> http://tinyurl.com/269etzr
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/23l2oxl
>
> i) Gregory the Thaumaturge (at left; at right, St. Epiphanius of Salamis) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1308 and ca. 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. Nicetas the Goth (Sv. Nikita) at Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> http://tinyurl.com/3ma4dov
>
> j) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century mosaics (ca. 1312) in the parecclesion (now a museum) of the former church of the Pammakaristos (Fethiye camii) in Istanbul:
> http://tinyurl.com/2c8f4wx
>
> k) Gregory the Thaumaturge (at lower right, after St. Dionysius the Areopagite) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George in Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
> http://tinyurl.com/6e62phy
> Detail view:
> http://tinyurl.com/4xkf94j
>
> l) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1313 and 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
> http://tinyurl.com/25n3lyt
>
> m) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1335-1350) in the altar area of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/6a4odzs
>
> n) Gregory the Thaumaturge as depicted in a November calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1335-1350) in the narthex of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
> http://tinyurl.com/yl2cr76
>
> o) Gregory the Thaumaturge (lower register; above, St. John the Eleemosynary and a bishop St. Leontius) as depicted in a fourteenth-century fresco in the monastery monastery of St. John the Theologian (Sv. Ioan Bogoslov) at Zemen in western Bulgaria:
> http://tinyurl.com/bsotv4e
>
> p) Gregory the Thaumaturge, as the student Theodore, listening along with his brother St. Athenodorus to Origen and, at right, as bishop Gregory operating a miracle as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 51, fol. 27v):
> http://tinyurl.com/y9dzc3k
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