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Herewith links to the two parts of an earlier (2010) 'Saints of the day' for 4. December (including, in Part 1, St. Barbara; St. Meletius of Pontus; St. Felix of Bologna; St. John of Damascus, and, in Part 2, St. Sualo; St. Osmund; St. Bernard of Parma):
Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/covmmc2
Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/d85kfjd
Further to Barbara:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add before item a) this link to a grayscale view of Barbara as depicted in an earlier eighth-century fresco in Rome's chiesa di Santa Maria Antiqua:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=1895
In the same notice, add after item d) this link to a view of Barbara as depicted in the probably eleventh-century frescoes of the Grotta dei Santi at Calvi Risorta (CE) in northern Campania:
http://www.cattedrale-calvirisorta.com/imgrSanti/19.jpg
In the same notice, at item e) the first and last links to the views of Barbara's church at Palaeochora / Paliohora on Cythera no longer function. Use these instead:
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2488/3839672069_6c38dbcf0c_z.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3921870957_4c9c3089fe.jpg
In the same notice, add after item f) this link to a view of Barbara as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0006bx.jpg
and this link to a view of Barbara as depicted in the later twelfth-century frescoes (betw. 1160 and 1190) in the church of St. Nicholas Kasnitzes in Kastoria in northwestern Greece:
http://tinyurl.com/7j7pd27
In the same notice, at item i) add this link to a closer view of Barbara as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes of the church of the Theotokos of Ljeviš in Prizren:
http://tinyurl.com/77ozky3
In the same notice, at item l) a revised set of views, etc. of the cappella di Santa Barbara (cappella palatina) in Naples' Castel Nuovo (entrance and upper portions rebuilt after the earthquake of 1456):
Illustrated, Italian-language account:
http://tinyurl.com/yo933d
Single views:
http://tinyurl.com/brkp9wy
http://tinyurl.com/blhgkfp
http://tinyurl.com/2bxptqm
http://www.napoletanita.it/foto/napoli106.jpg
http://www.adrart.it/arteincomune/palatina824.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/34l8at8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenpixel/3644081572/
http://www.napoletanita.it/foto/napoli107.jpg
In the same notice, add after item n) this link to a view of a relatively recently restored later fourteenth-century (ca. 1380) polychromed wooden statue of Barbara from a church of St. Thomas (Sv. Tomáš) near Frymburk (Český Krumlov dist.) in the Czech Republic, now in the regional Museum in Český Krumlov:
http://www.encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz/img.php?img=2810&LANG=en
In the same notice, at item q, the second link to views of the chapelle Sainte-Barbe at Le Faouët (Morbihan) no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/bma7way
In the same notice, add after item t) this link to a view of Barbara as portrayed in an earlier fifteenth-century (ca. 1430) limestone statue by Claus de Werve, now in the Bode-Museum in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/c94hxvk
In the same notice, add after item dd) this link to a view of Barbara (at right) and St. Homobonus of Cremona (at left) as portrayed flanking the BVM and Christ Child on a relief from 1511 for the former Ospedal dei Poveri Sartori at no. 4338 Fondamenta dei Sartori in Venice's _sestiere_ of Cannaregio:
http://tinyurl.com/azuqrn7
Further to John of Damascus:
In that earlier post's notice of this saint, add after item b) these links to views of John of Damascus as depicted in a fragment of a mid-twelfth- to mid-fourteenth-century fresco of a Koimesis scene now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unforth/2575947380/lightbox/
http://tinyurl.com/c3er5p7
and this link to a view of John of Damascus as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0020b.jpg
In the same notice, add after item d) these links to a view of John of Damascus (at right; at left, St. Cosmas of Maiuma) and to a detail view of John in that composition as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the parecclesion of the Most Holy Theotokos in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/9gzmt9e
http://tinyurl.com/c3q3a7w
In the same notice, at item e) the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes in the King's Church at the Studenica monastery are by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios. The link to a view of Johan of Damascus (at right) as depicted in those frescoes no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/ydnercr
In the same notice, at item f) the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes in the church of St. Nicetas the Goth (Sv. Nikita) at Čučer are by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios; a more conservative dating for them is betw. ca. 1308 and ca. 1320. Add this link to a detail view of the portrait already linked to of John of Damascus:
http://tinyurl.com/brxoqt8
In the same notice, at item g) the view of John of Damascus (at right in the center panel) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes of the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć is not in the nave but rather in the east dome of the narthex, where it's part of a set of December calendar portraits. The link to that view no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://tinyurl.com/cd2l84y
In the same notice, after item j) add this link to a view of John of Damascus (at left; at right, St. Macarius the Elder) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in 1971 and 1972) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/3es52jx
In the same notice, add after item k) this link to a view of John of Damascus (at center, betw. Sts. John Climacus and Arsenius the Great) as depicted in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century Novgorod School double-faced tablet icon from the St. Sophia cathedral in Novgorod and now in the Museum of History and Architecture there:
http://tinyurl.com/86jeonz
In the same notice, add after item l) this link to a view of John of Damascus (at center, betw. Sts. Theophanes of Megas Agros and Theodosius the Coenobiarch) as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on Mount Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/75q7jjh
Further to Bernard of Parma:
In the third paragraph of that earlier post's notice of this saint, for 'B. shortly after his return.' please read 'B. died shortly after his return.'
In the same notice, add a new fourth paragraph as follows:
B. has a substantial hagiographic dossier, including a Vita ascribed to the Vallombrosan abbot and hagiographer St. Atto of Pistoia (BHL 1249-1250). His Vitae prima and secunda (BHL 1246 and 1247) are in MGH, Scriptores, vol. 30, pt. 2, pp. 1316–1327. One can also read the MGH text of the Vita prima here:
http://tinyurl.com/2bujsk5
Best,
John Dillon
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