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No idea about the Menabuoi, sorry! Anne Derbes is working on the
paintings in the Baptistery-- perhaps she'll chime in.
Genevra
On 7/29/2016 12:40 PM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Thanks, Genevra.
>
> Same Martha. A couple of pages with photos showing her ex-chiesa in Venice in its present state:
> http://www.churchesofvenice.co.uk/dorsoduro2.htm#santamarta
> http://www.slowtrav.com/blog/annienc/2012/09/santa_marta.html
>
> Apropos the Menabuoi image of Martha and others with St. John, I was struck by the cryptic coloration of Agnes's lamb (second from right):
> http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/PaduaBapt_78.jpg
> Or was Menabuoi thinking of what some classicists now refer to as the "technicolor sheep" in the utopian prophecy in Vergil's _Eclogue 4_ (the "Messianic Eclogue")?:
> "Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
> No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
> Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
> Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
> Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
> The sturdy ploughman shall loose yoke from steer, -
> But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
> Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
> Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
> While clothed in natural scarlet graze the lambs." (tr. J. B. Greenough)
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the Day (July 29): St. Martha of Bethany
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> There is a nice C15 reliquary of St. Martha (same Martha?) in the
> Louvre. I have images shot as displayed
> www.KornbluthPhoto.com/StMarthaHandReliquary.html
> and the museum's web site in studio lighting
> http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/reliquary-hand-st-martha
> Martha is depicted by Giusto de' Menabuoi in Padua:
> www.KornbluthPhoto.com/PaduaBaptisteryGeneral.html
> row 5 no. 4, figure in purple next to John.
> best,
> Genevra
>
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