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I've always assumed that the head alabasters were displayed in much the
same way as other subjects, but will be most interested in other ideas!
Here's another example
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/JohnBaptist.html
row 5 no. 3
Genevra
On 2/24/2015 6:26 AM, Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew Milligan wrote:
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> Superb image and background description Gordon. The first time I saw
> Nottingham alabasters in any number was on my first visit to the
> Burrell collection in Glasgow - hugely frustrating because there is no
> provenance with any of the pieces. Is that typical? Do we just have
> the panels with
> no indication of where and by whom they were originally used?
>
> Rosemary Hayes
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24):
> the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner
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> Only marginally relevant to this is the fact that the head of John the
> Baptist was a major subject of Nottingham
> alabasters: Here is an example in the Castle Museum in Nottingham.:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16244647939
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
>
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> Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the
> First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner
>
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> In
> Orthodox and some other Eastern-rite churches of the Chalcedonian
> persuasion 24.
> February is the feast of the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head
> of St. John
> the Forerunner. Roman-rite martyrologies from at least the ninth
> century through
> to the modern Roman Martyrology prior to its revision of 2001 entered
> under that
> day a commemoration of the Finding (later, the First Finding) of the
> Head of St.
> John the Baptist. The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates these Findings
> in a
>
> feast of the Appearance of the Head of St. John the Baptist on 30.
> Amshir (9.
> March; 24. February, old style).
>
> In Greek tradition the First Finding took
> place in the time of Constantine the Great (306-337) and was effected
> by two
> monks informed by John in a dream. The recovered head was brought in
> secret to
> another place where in time it came into the possession of an Arian
> who used its
> miracle-working presence to bring about cures for which he took the
> credit
> and
> who, having been exiled, buried the head against an intended return
> that never
> happened. Later, after a monastery had been built over the place where
> the
> head
> was hidden, John appeared to the monastery's hegumen Marcellus,
> apprised him of
> what lay beneath, and so put in motion the Second Finding. Coptic
> Orthodox
> tradition is very similar but identifies the churchman who effects the
> Second
> Finding as Martianus, bishop of Emesa. In the Latin tradition
> represented by the
> later ninth-century martyrology of Usuard of Saint-Germain the Finding
> took
>
> place in the time of the emperor Marcian (450-457); this accords with the
> customary dates for the Second Finding (either 452 or 453).
>
> According to its
> originally eleventh-century _Hypotyposis_ (handbook of arrangements),
> at the
> Theotokos Evergetis monastery in Constantinople on only this feast and
> that of
> the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste would the monks break their fast during
> Great
> Lent.
>
>
> Some medieval images of the First and Second Findings of the Head of St.
> John the Forerunner:
>
> a) The First Finding as depicted (with Constantine and
> others present) in the later tenth- or very early eleventh-century
> so-called
> Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613,
> p. 420;
> reduced grayscale view):
> http://tinyurl.com/mzm2tyo
>
> b) The First Finding (at
> bottom left) as depicted in an eleventh- or twelfth-century menologion of
> undetermined origin (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 1528, fol.
> 216r):
> http://tinyurl.com/ojwvlvo
>
> c) The First Finding as depicted (panel at
> lower right) in an earlier fourteenth-century set of miniatures from
> Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340) for the Great Feasts (Oxford, Bodleian
> Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol.
> 28r):
> http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/28r.jpg
>
> d) The Second
> Finding (note the presence of the monastery church) as depicted in the
> St.. John
> the Forerunner cycle in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes
> (1330s) in
> the
> diakonikon of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć
> at Peć in,
> depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of
> Kosovo and
> Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
> http://tinyurl.com/83eevtp
>
> e) The First
> Finding (upper register; lower register: the Entombment of St. John the
> Forerunner) as depicted in the earlier sixteenth-century frescoes
> (1545 and
>
> 1546) by Theofanis Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in
> the
> chapel of St. Nicholas in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery
> on Mt.
> Athos:
> http://tinyurl.com/6lgc36s
>
> f) The First and Second Findings (bottom
> register, last two panels at right) as depicted in an earlier
> sixteenth-century
> icon, from Nyonoks in the Arkhangelskaya region, of St. John the
> Forerunner with
> scenes from his life, now in the Arkhangelsk Fine Arts
> Museum:
> http://www.iconrussia.ru/eng/icon/detail.php?ID=5837
> The Second
> Finding is represented by John's appearance to the hegumen Marcellus.
>
> g) The
> First and Second Findings (bottom register, last two panels at right) as
> depicted in an earlier or mid-sixteenth-century Yaroslavl School icon
> of St.
> John the Forerunner with scenes from his life, now in the Art Museum in
> Yaroslavl:
> http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=1128
>
> h) The
> First and Second Findings (bottom register, last four panels at right) as
> depicted in two pairs of scenes (John's appearances; actual findings)
> in a
> mid-sixteenth-century Yaroslavl School icon of St. John the Forerunner
> with
>
> scenes from his life, now in the Museum of History and Architecture,
> Yaroslavl:
> http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=1129
>
> Best,
> John
> Dillon
> (matter from an older post now
> revised)
>
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