medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Excellent photographs as always. Many thanks.
For those wishing to contextualize Jim's "goriest image" observation, herewith first the Agatha in question (in Perugia's chiesa/tempio/tempietto di San Michele Arcangelo):
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/PerugiaSMichele_26.jpg
and then some period-pertinent runners-up (Tiepolo's noteworthy contribution in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is alas too late for this list):
1) detail view of a panel in a mid-fifteenth-century altarpiece of St. John the Baptist attributed to Jacques Durandi, formerly in the église Ste-Marguerite at Lucéram (Alpes-Maritimes) and variously said now to be either in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice or else in that city's Musée Massena:
http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/75/16/348054/18721649_p.jpg
The work as a whole (Agatha at upper right):
http://ferdinand.dupont.pagesperso-orange.fr/FDSEITE/AFA/Luceram/LUCERM11.JPG
2) at upper left in an altarpiece of St. Benedict (ca. 1455; also attributed to Jacques Durandi) in the église Saint-Benoît de Bonson (Alpes-Maritimes)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Bonson_-_%C3%89glise_Saint-Beno%C3%AEt_-01.JPG
3) in an illumination in the later twelfth-century Weissenau Passional (Cologny, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cod. Bodmer 127, f. 39v):
http://tinyurl.com/l5a2usq
http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=32093
4) in an illumination in a later thirteenth-century psalter for the Use of Reims (Carpentras, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 77 (\1), fol. 178v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_073122-p.jpg
Rather less gory:
5) in an illumination in the late thirteenth-century (ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 97v):
http://tinyurl.com/ya9wkjy
6) in a late fifteenth-century (ca. 1492) fresco by Giovan Pietro da Cemmo and assistants in the chiesa di Santa Maria at Esine (BS) in Lombardy:
http://tinyurl.com/7d527se
No gore but hard to omit: this relief now mounted in the north aisle of the later fifteenth-century church of St Lawrence in Lechlade-on-Thames (Glos):
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/31/77/2317762_69cf0d69.jpg
http://www.santopalooza.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Agatha-stone.jpg
In 1888 the relief was said to be immured in the wall of the vicarage garden.
Best,
John Dillon
On 09/12/14, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jim. It is pretty gross, isn't it? (Don't you just love art historical jargon?)
> Genevra
>
> On 9/12/2014 6:16 PM, James Bugslag wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >Magnificent photos, as usual, Genevra. And that's the goriest image of St Agatha in the Sant'Angelo church that I've ever seen!
> >Jim
> >
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: [M-R] photos of Sant'Angelo in Perugia, the Gemma Augustea, and a Byzantine lapis lazuli cameo
> >
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >Apologies for cross posting.
> >
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I have just posted three pages of new photographs to my archive:
> >
> >the Early Christian central-plan church of Sant'Angelo (Temple of San
> >Michele Arcangelo, Tempio dell’Arcangelo Michele, Tempio di S. Michele
> >Arcangelo, Temple of the Archangel Michael) in Perugia
> >http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/SantAngeloPerugia.html
> >
> >the Roman Gemma Augustea in Vienna,
> >http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/GemmaAugustea.html
> >
> >and the 12th-c. Byzantine lapis lazuli cameo in the Louvre, depicting
> >Christ blessing on one side
> >http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/LouvreLapisCameoChrist.html
> >
> >and the Virgin Mary on the other.
> >Http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/LouvreLapisCameoVir.html
> >
> >This is one of the few Byzantine cameos that appears to retain its
> >original Byzantine metalwork setting.
> >
> >best regards,
> >Genevra
> >
> >home page: http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com
> >historical archive: http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html
> >
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