medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John, thanks once again for the marvelous images you send us along with the 'saints' postings. Too often I don't stop to smell those figurative roses. The Lateran image fascinated me by all I could not understand: why is Aug sitting on a dresser? How common is it to see a tiny lion crawling up a column and holding an ink horn in its maw? Why is the footstool levitating, and what is that angel holding in its veiled hands?
I'd be grateful for any elucidation this company can easily provide -
TGD
> On Aug 28, 2016, at 6:44 AM, "John Dillon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Some period-pertinent images of St. Augustine of Hippo:
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> a) as depicted in a late sixth-century fresco, widely thought to be his earliest surviving image, in the papal basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano:
> http://www.unifr.ch/patr/ah/aug/
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