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By way of supplement to Gordon Plumb's images of St. Leonard of Noblac posted earlier today (SUBJ: St Leonard of Noblac), herewith some links to other period-pertinent images of this saint:
a) as depicted (freeing a prisoner) in an eleventh-century fresco in the nave of the église St.-Christophe in Montferrand-du-Périgord (Dordogne):
http://tinyurl.com/q9wclto
b) as depicted (lower right, after Sts. Lawrence of Rome and Martin of Tours) in a twelfth-century icon of Byzantine origin or inspiration in the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai in St. Catherine (South Sinai governorate):
http://www.forum-orthodoxe.com/images/stmartindetours.jpg
c) as depicted in the early twelfth-century mosaics (ca. 1100-1120; restored, earlier nineteenth century) in the cupola di San Leonardo in Venice's basilica cattedrale patriarcale di San Marco:
http://tinyurl.com/budtwfb
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/cczb3yk
Context (in this view Leonard is at the six o'clock position):
http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/6sanmarc/2cusouth.jpg
d) as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/osmofqe
http://tinyurl.com/2xc8x3
e) as portrayed (protecting a donor-sized prisoner) in a worn relief on the later twelfth-century ornamental portal (ca. 1170-1180) from the chiesa di San Leonardo al Frigido at Massa (MS) in Tuscany in The Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/qe7grhe
The portal:
http://tinyurl.com/osuo7au
f) as portrayed (at upper right, with two prisoners) in a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century relief from Zamora in The Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/qh85drp
g) as depicted in a thirteenth-century glass window of the Pfarrkirche hl. Michael at St Michael im Lungau (Land Salzburg):
http://www.burgenseite.com/faschen/st_michael_faces_6.jpg
h) as depicted (at left; to the Virgin's right) by the Master of the Magdalen in a later thirteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1270) in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT:
http://tinyurl.com/23gd7ko
i) as depicted in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 144r):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000907A.jpg
j) as depicted (second from right; holding manacles) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1326-1350) of the crkva Sv. Marije Magdalene in ©oriæi, a locality of Kanfanar (Istarska ¾upanija) in Croatia:
http://tinyurl.com/ne4cgz2
k) as depicted (two scenes) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1326-1350; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 126r):
http://tinyurl.com/2fsskvp
l) as depicted 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. 188v):
http://tinyurl.com/yentmo3
m) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy, from the workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston, of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (1348; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 278v):
http://tinyurl.com/yj6v6to
n) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century copy of Vincent of Beauvais' _Speculum historiale_ in its French-language translation by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1370-1380; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 15944, fol. 37v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449708p/f82.item.zoom
o) as portrayed in a late medieval statue on the Stadtpfarrkirche zum Hl. Leonhard in Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal (Land Kärnten):
http://tinyurl.com/23swl3
p) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Christina of Bolsena) in a fifteenth-century fresco in the basilica di Santa Cristina in Bolsena:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Christina11.jpg
q) as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in the chiesa di San Michele in Isnello (PA) in Sicily):
http://tinyurl.com/qh85drp
r) as depicted in a fifteenth-century fresco in the chiesa di Santa Maria a Piazza in Aversa (CE) in Campania:
http://tinyurl.com/pp2q452
s) as portrayed on a fifteenth-century pilgrim's badge of French or English origin in The Cloisters Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/469900
t) as depicted (at far left) on the fifteenth-century rood screen of the Church of St John the Baptist in Ashton (Devon):
http://tinyurl.com/asrtmqv
u) as depicted (at right; at left, the BVM and Christ Child) in a fifteenth-century fresco (restored, 1981) in the cattedrale di San Pietro apostolo in Mantua:
http://tinyurl.com/phmll96
v) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Catherine of Alexandria) in a mid- or later fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1450-1470; from a rood screen in St John's Church, Maddermarket, Norwich) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/nab983p
w) as depicted by the Master of Sir John Fastolf in an earlier fifteenth-century book of hours of French or English origin (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, ms. 5, fol. 43v):
http://tinyurl.com/pyqjlfe
x) as depicted (refusing Clovis' offer of a bishopric) on a wing of a mid-fifteenth-century altarpiece (ca. 1455) in the Filialkirche zum Hl. Leonhard in Bad Aussee in Austria's Land Steiermark:
http://tinyurl.com/33fkm7f
y) as depicted (freeing two prisoners) on a detached bifolium illuminated by Johannes Bemler (1457; New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, Morgan Ms. M.45, fol. 2r):
http://tinyurl.com/qh85drp
z) as portrayed in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century statue (ca. 1500) in the Augustiner-Museum at Rattenberg (Land Tirol) in Austria:
http://www.augustinermuseum.at/sammlung_leonhard.htm
aa) as portrayed in relief (at center, betw. Sts. Vitus and George at left and Sts. Aegidius/Giles and Dionysius/Denys at right) on the early sixteenth-century tomb of the Kurfürstin Anna (1512) in the Münster St. Marien und Jakobus Heilsbronn (Lkr. Ansbach) in Bayern:
http://tinyurl.com/335896j
bb) as portrayed in two earlier sixteenth-century bosses (betw. 1512 and 1518) by Martin Lebzelter in the Leonhardskirche in Basel:
http://tinyurl.com/29zr5s
Best,
John Dillon
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