Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Thursday 21 January 2016

St Agnes


Today is the feast of St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr.

Here are some of the more striking images of her from those posted by John Dillon on the Medieval Religion discussion group:

http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/0main/maest_01c.jpg

St Agnes  depicted (bottom register, at far right) by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his early fourteenth-century Maestà (between 1308 and 1311) for the cathedral of Siena


Detail view  of  St Agnes:


http://www.wga.hu/art/d/duccio/maesta/0main/maest_06a.jpg



 http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/german/thumb/Simone_Martini_011_OBNP2009-Y05845.jpg

St Agnes at left; at right, St. Ambrose of Milan by Simone Martini in a predella panel of his earlier fourteenth-century Polyptych of Santa Caterina (commissioned, 1319) in the Museo nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa


St Agnes depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century East Window (ca. 1320) in the church of the former Cistercian abbey of Heiligkreuztal near Riedlingen (Lkr. Biberach) in Baden-Württemberg:

 Heiligkreuztal, Klosterkirche, Hl. Agnes

Detail view:

 http://www.heiligen.net/afb/01/21/01-21-0304-agnes-rome_1.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Andrea_di_Bonaiuto._St._Agnes_and_St._Domitilla._1365._Galleria_dell%27Accademia%2C_Florence..jpg

St Agnes at left with at right, St. Domitilla by Andrea di Bonaiuto in a later fourteenth-century diptych (c. 1365-1370) in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

 

 http://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/images/religion_und_politik/aktuelles/2012/03_2012/news-reliquienstatuette-heilige-agnes-zoom.jpg

An earlier sixteenth-century silver and silver gilt reliquary statue (c. 1520-1525) in the treasury of the St.-Paulus-Dom in Münster

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