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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture The Swabian Albert of Lauingen (later Albert the Great; in Latin _Albertus Magnus_) had been studying at Padua when in 1223 Bl. Jordan of Saxony accepted him into the Dominican Order. He completed his novitiate at Köln and then served as a lector in various houses in his order's German-speaking province. From 1243 to 1248 Albert studied and then taught at Paris. He returned to Köln in 1248 as head of his order's university there. In 1254 Albert was elected provincial of the aforementioned province. For the remainder of his life, though there were times when he was able to teach, he acted primarily as an ecclesiastical administrator. Consecrated bishop of Regensburg in 1260 at the behest of pope Alexander IV, he served unwillingly and returned to his order in 1262. As a papal legate in 1263 and 1264 he preached the Crusade in Germany and Bohemia. In 1274 he participated in the Second Council of Lyon. Albert was a prolific author from early in his career until about ten years before his death in Köln in the year 1280. Like his student Thomas Aquinas, he wrote commentaries on the Bible in addition to a corpus of influential philosophical works that helped to define the medieval Christian reception of Aristotle. Albert was beatified in 1622 and canonized in 1931. His entry in the _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ begins here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/albert-great/ A.'s sarcophagus in Köln's Dominican church of Sankt Andreas: http://tinyurl.com/yztf5ua Some period-pertinent images of Albertus Magnus: a) as depicted in the opening initial of a late thirteenth-century copy of his _De mineralibus_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 6514, fol. 1r): http://tinyurl.com/yhpxef4 b) as depicted (mitred, sharing a book [the metaphoric Book of Nature?] with Aristotle) in the opening initial of a fourteenth-century copy of his _De animalibus_ (ca. 1334-1366; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 16169, fol. 2r): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85409542/f5.item.zoom http://tinyurl.com/np8y4q2 c) as depicted by Tommaso da Modena in his mid-fourteenth-century portraits of Dominican worthies (1351/52) in the chapter room of the former Dominican convent (now a diocesan seminary) adjacent to the chiesa di San Nicolò at Treviso: http://tinyurl.com/o59cc3o d) as depicted by Hugo of Schleusingen in the Bartholomaeus Anglicus portion of a late fourteenth-century miscellany from Schmalkalden (1388; München, BSB, Clm 27029, fol. 88r): http://tinyurl.com/p34uz9x http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00103280/image_179 There is a larger grayscale view in S. Foster Damon, "A Portrait of Albertus Magnus", _Speculum_ 5, no. 1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 102-103. e) as depicted by Beato Angelico in the roundels of Dominican worthies beneath his earlier fifteenth-century fresco (early 1440s) of the Crucifixion and Saints in the chapter room of the convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco in Florence: http://www.museobenozzogozzoli.it/filecomuni/38004_003.jpg f) as depicted (upper register at far right, accompanying St. Thomas Aquinas; at left, Beatrice and Dante) by Giovanni di Paolo in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of the _Divina Commedia_ (ca. 1450; London, BL, Yates Thompson 36, fol. 147r): http://tinyurl.com/ol3yphu g) as depicted by someone in the circle of Friedrich Walther in a mid- or later fifteenth-century panel painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/471924 h) as depicted (lower register, center right) with other physicians in a later fifteenth-century (ca. 1471) copy of Giovanni Cadamosto, _Libro de componere herbe et fructi_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Italien 1108, fol. 7v): http://tinyurl.com/yfhnrpx i) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1476) variously attributed to Joos van Gent (Justus of Ghent, etc., etc.) or to Pedro Berruguete in the Galleria nazionale delle Marche in the ducal palace at Urbino: http://tinyurl.com/oszttl4 On display (lower register, second from right) on the south wall of Federico da Montefeltro's _studiolo_: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kirkbride/detail/us_3_south_wall_men.html j) as depicted (roundel in the right margin) by Gioacchino di Giovanni in a later fifteenth-century copy of Neapolitan origin of his _De laudibus beate Mariae Virginis_ (1476; Valencia, Universitat de València, Biblioteca Històrica, BH ms. 399, fol. 1r): http://tinyurl.com/qzt8z5h k) as depicted by Nardo Rapicano in a later fifteenth-century copy of Neapolitan origin of his _ De mirabili scientia Dei_ (ca. 1484; Valencia, Universitat de València, Biblioteca Històrica, BH ms. 390, fol. 7r): http://tinyurl.com/q9j6h39 l) as portrayed by Vincenzo Onofri in a late fifteenth-century bust (ca. 1493) in the Museo civico medievale in Bologna: http://tinyurl.com/q3ufjl7 m) as depicted (left margin) in a hand-colored woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. CCXIIIIr: http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/6th_age/right_page/117%20%28Folio%20CCXIIIIr%29.pdf n) as depicted (at left; at right, Bl. John Duns Scotus) by Amico Aspertini in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (1521) in the Pinacoteca civica in Como: http://tinyurl.com/pjkvvvs Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion