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By way of supplement to the images pointed to by Gordon and by Genevra in the thread "St Matthew the Evangelist 21st September", herewith some links to further period-pertinent images of St. Matthew the Evangelist (NB: for convenience, I'm calling Matthew's tetramorphic image "his angel" throughout: for instances of its portrayal as an actual angel interacting with Matthew see items f, pp, ss, yy, and eee).



a) as depicted (second from top at right; above him, St. Andrew; below him, St. Paul) among the roundels of apostles framing the Theotokos and Christ Child in a sixth-century tapestry icon from Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (OH):

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.144#

Detail view:

http://tinyurl.com/ph59gr6



b) as depicted in a late sixth-century mosaic formerly in the apse of the church of the Panagia Kanakaria at Lythrankomi in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and now in the Byzantine Museum in that part of Nicosia under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/6pwqfgm



c) as depicted (with his angel) in a full-page illumination in the earlier eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels (ca. 715-720; London, BL, MS Cotton Nero D. IV, fol. 25v):

http://tinyurl.com/2wg5xct



d) as depicted (lower register; upper register, his angel) in the mid-eighth-century Gundohinus Gospels (Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 186v):

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_106900-p.jpg



e) as depicted (lower register; upper register, his angel) in the mid-eighth-century Stockholm Codex Aureus (a.k.a. Codex Aureus of Canterbury; Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, MS A. 135, fol. 9v):

http://tinyurl.com/pmt8g5x



f) as depicted (with his angel) in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-century Godescalc Gospels (betw. 781 and 783; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1203, fol. 1):

http://tinyurl.com/ntcp6zo



g) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-or early ninth-century Coronation Gospels from Aachen (ca. 795-810; Vienna; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Weltliche Schatzkammer, Inv. Nr. XIII 18, fol. 15r):

http://tinyurl.com/pz8jqnz

http://tinyurl.com/q5pt9zp



h) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier ninth-century Ebbo Gospels (ca. 816-841; Épernay, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1, fol. 18v):

https://krizpots.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ebbo.jpg



i) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a late ninth- or early tenth-century Gospels from Landévennec (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 16, fol.28v):

http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/ms.auct.d.2.16/28v.jpg



j) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century Gospel lectionary from Constantinople (ca. 976-1025; St. Catherine [So. Sinai], Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, cod. 204, fol. 8r):

http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=2464



k) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century Gospels from Constantinople (ca. 976-1025; Paris, BnF, ms. Coislin 20, fol. 10v):

http://tinyurl.com/p9g8utk



l) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the narthex of the church of the Theotokos in the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:

http://tinyurl.com/pgmsg2s



m) as depicted in a full-page illumination in an earlier eleventh-century Gospels from Constantinople (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 64, fol. 9v):

http://tinyurl.com/25h3ats



n) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century mosaics in the katholikon of the Nea Moni on Chios:

http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/nea_moni/10.jpg

Detail view:

http://tinyurl.com/nsl72z6



o) as portrayed in high relief on a later eleventh-century ivory plaque of Rhenish origin in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:

http://tinyurl.com/92zpsjw

The plaque as a whole:

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129592/plaque-unknown/



p) as depicted in a twelfth-century copy of the Gospel of Matthew with gloss (Châlons-en-Champagne, Bibliothèques de Châlons, Bibliothèque Pompidou, ms. 78 [86], fol. 1r):

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht7/IRHT_108122-p.jpg



q) as depicted in a full-page illumination an earlier twelfth-century Gospels from Agen or from the abbey of Moissac (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 254, fol. 10r):

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8426051s/f23.item



r) as depicted (with his angel) in an earlier twelfth-century legendary from the abbey of Cîteaux (betw. 1101-1133; Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 641, fol. 57r):

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_094812-p.jpg



s) as depicted by the Kokkinobaphos Master in a full-page illumination formerly part of an earlier twelfth-century Gospels from Constantinople (ca. 1126-1150; Mt. Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A44) and now in the Walters Art Gallery and Museum, Baltimore (fol. W.530.Er):

http://tinyurl.com/qyang7m



t) as depicted (at left; at right, St. John the Theologian) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaic in the left aisle of Trieste's basilica cattedrale di San Giusto martire:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3889/15164998215_ce7b0fd9d3_b.jpg



u) as depicted (upper register at center) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaics (completed in 1148) of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù:

http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/3cefalu/4cefalu.jpg



v) as portrayed (at right; at left, St. Thomas) on a later twelfth-century gilt and enameled copper plaque of Mosan origin (ca. 1160) in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (OH):

www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.462.2



w) as portrayed in relief (at far right in this view, drinking from a cup) by Anselmo da Campione in his Last Supper panel on the later twelfth-century parapet (_pontile_; ca. 1170-1180) in the cattedrale di San Geminiano in Modena:

http://tinyurl.com/nqu8lef



x) as depicted in the later twelfth-century Last Judgment fresco (betw. 1176 and 1200) in the church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga:

http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=11&id=1447



y) as portrayed in relief (at left; at center, St. Thomas; at right, St. Peter) on the late twelfth-century enameled copper reliquary châsse (of Limousin origin) of Sts. Calminus and Namadia in the église abbatiale St.-Pierre et St.-Caprais in Mozac (Puy-de-Dôme):

http://tinyurl.com/p5j4e4q



z) as portrayed (top row and the first two views in the following row; scenes of his legendary apostolate in Ethiopia) on a late twelfth-century capital found at Nazareth in 1908 and now mounted on a wall of the modern Church of the Annunciation there:

http://picasaweb.google.com/JuliannaLees/NazarethCapitals#



aa) as portrayed (at center; at right, St. John the Evangelist) in a late twelfth-century jamb statue on the Galluspforte (the north portal; ca. 1180-1190) of the Basler Münster:

http://tinyurl.com/36pve69



bb) as portrayed in high relief on an earlier thirteenth-century enameled plaque (ca. 1220-1230) from the main altar of the then priory church of St. Michael at Grandmont (Haute-Vienne) and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris:

http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/pub/fr/image/63519_95-001705.jpg



cc) as portrayed in a statue on the earlier thirteenth-century Angel Pillar (ca. 1230) in the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg:

http://tinyurl.com/ozz5yzl



dd) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century fresco (betw. 1260 and 1263) in the nave 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/2clkpom

Detail view:

http://tinyurl.com/2e687k5



ee) as portrayed (second from left) in a silver gilt statuette on the later thirteenth-century copper gilt châsse of St. Remaclus (completed betw. 1263 and 1268) in the église Saint-Sébastien in Stavelot:

http://tinyurl.com/o2u8rsz

Detail view (zoomable image):

http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=KM3923&objnr=10074187&lang=en-GB&nr=1



ff) as depicted by Cimabue in a later thirteenth-century fresco (ca. 1277-1280) in the upper church of the basilica di San Francesco, Assisi (in a vault field that collapsed as a result of the earthquake of 1997; restoration completed, 2007):

http://tinyurl.com/39fafcu

Detail view:

http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cimabue/assisi/vault4.jpg



gg) as portrayed in a later thirteenth-century statue (ca. 1280) on a pillar in the inner choir of Köln's Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus und Maria:

http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/gothic/4/03g_1350.jpg



hh) as depicted (at far left) by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his early fourteenth-century Maestà altarpiece (betw. 1308-1311) in the Museo del Opera del Duomo in Siena:

http://klp.pl/admin-malarstwo/images/d_duccio_duccio/d_duccio_duccio21.jpg

Enlarged view (in an ad for a mousepad bearing this image):

http://tinyurl.com/ngxl5zm



ii) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (ca. 1310-1320), often attributed to Giotto di Bondone, in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco, Assisi:

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/francis/ABI-matteo-l.jpg



jj) as depicted by the workshop of Simone Martini in an early fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1317-1320) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC:

http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.41633.html



kk) as depicted (center panel, at left in upper register) by Ugolino di Nerio in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1325-1330), from his dismembered Santa Croce altarpiece, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:

http://www.wga.hu/art/u/ugolino/nerio/croce.jpg



ll) as depicted (martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin, with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (ca. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 49r):

http://tinyurl.com/2fumpvy



mm) as depicted (at left) by Bernardo Daddi in an earlier fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM with saints (1328) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:

http://www.wga.hu/art/d/daddi/mad_chil.jpg



nn) as depicted in a November calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the narthex in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near 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/obejyr9



oo) as depicted (top center; martyrdom ) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1355) of Ulrich of Lilienfeld's _Concordantiae caritatis_ (Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 151, fol. 214v):

http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7005000.JPG



pp) as depicted (with his angel) in a later fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1357 and 1367) by Theodoric of Prague and workshop in the Holy Cross Chapel, Karlštejn Castle (near Prague):

http://tinyurl.com/nk5zzot



qq) as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's Monastery at Markova Sušica:

http://tinyurl.com/qxrl38k



rr) as depicted by Andrea Orcagna (M. as evangelist and as missionary in Ethiopia) in a later fourteenth-century triptych (ca. 1367; completed by Jacopo di Cione) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:

http://www.wga.hu/art/o/orcagna/matthew.jpg



ss) as depicted (at far right, with his angel) by Spinello Aretino in a late fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM and saints (1391) in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence:

http://tinyurl.com/oe8jjxl



tt) as portrayed in high relief (third from left) on the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century tomb of St. Wendelin in his basilica in Sankt Wendel:

http://tinyurl.com/qhvtart



uu) as depicted (bottom register, at far right) by Lorenzo Monaco in a panel painting, from his dismembered early fifteenth-century San Benedetto altarpiece (1307-1309), in the National Gallery, London (image greatly expandable):

http://tinyurl.com/obhzaxp



vv) as portrayed by Bernardo Ciuffagni in an early fifteenth-century statue  (betw. 1410  and 1415) for the facade of the cathedral of Florence (statue now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo):

http://tinyurl.com/qdfg6xt



ww) as depicted (driving off two dragons in Ethiopia) in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 337v):

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_054188-p.jpg



xx) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier fifteenth-century Radoslav Gospel from Serbia (1428-1429; Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, ms. РНБ. F.I.591, fol. 1r):

http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=4827



yy) as portrayed in relief (with his angel) by Donatello in an earlier fifteenth-century terracotta roundel (betw. 1428 and 1445) in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:

http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri09.jpg



zz) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Francis of Assisi) by Giovanni di Paolo in an early fifteenth-century predella panel (ca. 1435) , from a dismembered altarpiece, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436515



aaa) as depicted in the Suffrages in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Catherine of Cleves (ca. 1440; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, ms. M.917, p. 231; image greatly expandable):

http://www.themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-catherine-of-cleves/88



bbb) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a mid-fifteenth-century Armenian-language Gospels (1456; Paris, BnF, ms. Arménien 18, fol. 28v):

http://tinyurl.com/23aqaud



ccc) as portrayed in a polychromed and gilt later fifteenth-century wooden statue from Brabant (ca. 1470) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:

http://metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/461166



ddd) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Simon the Zealot) by Miguel Ximénez and workshop in a panel of his and Martín Bernad's late fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Holy Cross (completed, 1487) for the parish church of Blesa (Teruel) and now, after dismemberment, mostly in the Museo de Zaragoza:

http://tinyurl.com/pxnyady



eee) as depicted (with his angel) in a late fifteenth-century breviary according to the Use of Besançon (before 1498; Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 69, p. 772):

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht5/IRHT_083529-p.jpg



Best,

John Dillon



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