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In churches using the Roman Rite, other Latin rites, or the Byzantine Rite, as well as in other churches whose liturgical calendars have been influenced by one of the foregoing, 29. June is the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles. Herewith some period-pertinent images of Sts. Peter and Paul shown either jointly or as members of a corresponding pair:
a) as depicted (flanking Christ) in the originally earlier sixth-century apse mosaic (ca. 527-530) of Rome's basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano:
http://tinyurl.com/owkczgf
b) as depicted (flanking Christ) in the earlier to mid-sixth-century mosaics of the presbytery arch (carefully restored, 1890-1900) in the Basilica Eufrasiana in Poreč:
http://www.zupaporec.com/images/slideshow/bazilika1.jpg
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/z54vkra
c) as depicted in encaustic (top left: Paul; top right: Peter) in a joined pair of two seventh-century triptych wings in the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai in Saint Catherine (South Sinai Governorate):
http://tinyurl.com/b9nheyz
d) as depicted (right margin, figures at top) in a ninth-century copy of St. John Damascene's _Parallela sacra_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 923, fol. 317r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525013124/f637.item.zoom
e) as twice depicted (upper register at right: before Nero; lower register at left: praying as Simon Magus falls) in a late tenth- or very early eleventh-century troper, proser, and gradual from the abbey church of the Holy Savior at Prüm in the Eifel (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 9448, fol. 54v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229915/f118.item.r=%22latin%209448%22.zoom
f) as portrayed in relief (at right, embracing; at left, St. Gregory of Nyssa and Basil the Great) on a late tenth- or early eleventh-century elephant ivory panel from Constantinople of the Dormition of the Theotokos and Saints:
http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2009CR/2009CR2814_jpg_l.jpg
Another view:
http://tinyurl.com/joo9tll
The object as a whole:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O92636/the-dormition-of-the-virgin-panel-unknown/
g) as portrayed (embracing) in a twelfth-century fresco in the Vatopedi monastery on Mt. Athos:
http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Petrus-Paulus.jpg
h) as depicted (at left, embracing) in the mid- or slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/jalzbhj
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/ju4bt2k
i) as depicted (holding a model of ?the celestial city) in a later twelfth-century sacramentary from the abbaye de St.-Amand in Saint-Amand (ca. 1170-1180; Valenciennes, Bibliothèque de Valenciennes, ms. 108, fol. 79r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_075490-p.jpg
j) as depicted in a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century papal bulla (Innocent III; 1198-1216) in :
http://wf4.nl/E06/Theo/24-845vzb.jpg
k) as depicted in a thirteenth-century icon (from the church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Belozersk) in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg:
http://tinyurl.com/gsqnxrr
l) as depicted (their martyrdoms) in a French-language _Vie e passion_ as transmitted in a thirteenth-century collection of miracles of the BVM, saint's legends, and other texts (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 818, fol. 154r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10507337z/f313.item.r=Fran%C3%A7ais%20818.zoom
m) as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century Pontifical of Chartres (Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 144, fol. 93v):
http://tinyurl.com/3977kuw
n) as depicted (flanking Christ) in the earlier thirteenth-century apse mosaic (1220) of the basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome:
http://tinyurl.com/358xl34
o) as depicted in the later thirteenth-century (either ca. 1263-1270 or slightly later) frescoes of the choir in the monastery church of the Holy Trinity at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in southern Serbia:
1) Peter:
http://tinyurl.com/3x73ubq
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/36dc2zq
2) Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/3xwqfx4
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/39yv2q8
p) as depicted in a late thirteenth-century missal from Auvergne (ca. 1280-1290; Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliothèque du Patrimoine, ms. 62, fol. 218r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_081163-p.jpg
q) as depicted by Eutychios and Michael Astrapas in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) in the church of Peribleptos (now Sv. Kliment Ohridski) in Ohrid:
1) Peter:
http://tinyurl.com/z8wrxge
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/jqddolv
2) Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/hvhwhdk
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/hs7beas
http://tinyurl.com/jan9b56
r) as depicted in a pair of fourteenth-century frescoes in the church of the Holy Ascension in the Žiča monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
Peter:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/e/e6/ApostlePeterZica.jpg
Paul:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/a/aa/ApostlePaulZica.jpg
s) as depicted (at center) in a fourteenth-century embroidered altar frontal of Italian manufacture (before 1369) in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore:
http://tinyurl.com/hg2jt4s
t) as depicted (flanking the BVM and Christ Child) by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his earlier fourteenth century Polyptych no. 28 (ca. 1300-1325) in the Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/various/7poly28.jpg
u) as depicted (flanking the BVM) by Ugolino di Nerio (attrib.) in an earlier fourteenth-century altarpiece (ca. 1320-1325) in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/gvp6ccd
v) as depicted (panel at upper left; their martyrdoms) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 45v):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/45v.jpg
w) as depicted by Giotto di Bondone and workshop in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1325-1335; tempera transferred to copper) in the Museo del Tesoro di S. Pietro in the Vatican:
http://www.romeguide.it/mostre/giottoeiltrecento/giottotrecento05.jpg
x) as depicted (at left, before Nero) 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. 14r):
http://tinyurl.com/jxhntxr
y) as depicted (their martyrdoms) in a June calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in 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/ygj7y86
z) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century Roman missal of north Italian origin (ca. 1370; Avignon, Bibliothèque-Mediathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 136, fol. 249r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_055327-p.jpg
aa) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century frescoes (1389; restored in the early 1970s) in the monastery church of St. Andrew at Matka in Skopje's municipality of Karpoš:
1) Peter:
http://tinyurl.com/zsawbuz
2) Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/zhnrqzz
bb) as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century book of hours for the Use of Rome (ca. 1420-1440; Den Haag, KB, ms. 133 D 14, fol. 9v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_133d14%3A009v_min
cc) as depicted (appearing to St. Dominic) by Beato Angelico in a panel painting on the predella of his earlier fifteenth-century Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece (ca. 1430-1432) in the Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/jnd26b9
dd) as depicted (embracing) by Angelos Akotantos in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1436-1450) in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford:
http://tinyurl.com/zvzs587
http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/images/high/WA1982.192.jpg
ee) as depicted in grisaille by Jean le Tavernier in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Philip of Burgundy (ca. 1451-1460; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 2, fol. 248v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f2%3A248v_min
ff) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century Novgorod School icon in the Karelian Fine Arts Museum in Petrozavodsk:
http://tinyurl.com/27a6exm
gg) as depicted by a follower of Willem Vrelant in the suffrages of a late fifteenth-century Hours of the BVM (ca. 1490; Den Haag, Museum Meermanno, ms. 10 F 1, fol. 201r):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_mmw_10f1%3A201r_init
hh) as portrayed in relief on an early sixteenth-century papal bulla (Leo X; 1513-1521):
https://blogs.princeton.edu/manuscripts/files/2016/01/Bulla-Leo-X-front.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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