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.


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Friday, 22 January 2016

St Vincent


Today is the feast of St Vincent, whose depiction in art I have featured before but this year Gordon Plumb and John Dillon have provided a most impressive series of pictures of the saint's story on the Medieval Religion discussion group. Many of these are very interesting as to what later medieval life and liturgy were like, and hence this rather lengthy post. Larger views of the pictures I have posted can be obtained by clicking on the appropriate link at the bottom right.

Gordon Plumb started the series of images as follows:

St Vincent of Saragossa:
The 22nd of January is the feast of St Vincent of Saragossa, who died in 304 and was a deacon and the first Spanish martyr. He was trained by Valerius, bishop of Saragossa. Of his martyrdom there is no doubt, though there is considerable uncertainty about exactly how it occurred. Prudentius is our first witness and Augustine attests that the cult was known all over the Roman Empire. According to the ancient Legend, he suffered under the edicts of Diocletian and Maximian. At first imprisoned and kept short of food, he refused to sacrifice and was then racked, roasted on a grid, imprisoned and put into the stocks. He died as a result of his sufferings. He is often shown as a deacon holding a palm, or else suffering on the grid.

Angers, Cathédrale Saint-Maurice, Bay 121, Martyrdom of St Vincent, c.1180:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16237364432
and detail of Vincent's body protected by crows:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16237383302
of Vincent being flogged:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15618333743
of Vincent being visited by angels in prison:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16052356717
Vincent on the grill:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16050686738
Death of Vincent:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16212308586
Vincent and Valerian before Decius:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15615773394

Oxford, St Peter in the East, North Chapel, North window, right-hand light, part of deacon holding palm (St Vincent of Saragossa): This glass was given by Vincent Wycking, Vicar in 1433.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2762050523

Heydour, St Michael, nV, 2a-3a:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3452347882

Harpley, St Lawrence, wI, D2, Vincent and Ledger:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3320378464

Panel in the Collections of the Victoria &Albert Museum showing Vincent burnt on the rack from Saint-Germain-des-Près, Paris of c.1240-45.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8588/saint-vincent-burnt-on-the-window-unknown/
The church was originally dedicated to St Vincent, later being redecicated to St Vincent and St Germanus. On this window see Mary B Shepard in Gesta, Vol. 37, No, 2, 1998.
Further panels in the Metropolitan Museum, New York can be seen here:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/466580

Bourges Cathedral, Bay 12, St Vincent of Saragossa window, with facility to see excellent images of each panel by clicking on the window outline. To get to Bay 12 click on the appropriate box in the
general plan of the Bourges windows:
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Bourges/12_pages/Bourges_Bay_12_key.htm


John Dillon then posted his selection, again with an introduction to the cult:

 A popular martyr of early Christian Iberia, Vincent (d. 304?) was a deacon at Zaragoza (a.k.a. Saragossa) who did a lot of preaching for his Bishop, Valerius.  The latter (in some accounts) had a speech impediment.  At the outbreak of the Diocletianic persecution they were both arrested and hauled off to Valencia, where they were imprisoned pending a hearing.  When that hearing came, Vincent did most of the talking and spoke so ably that the presiding magistrate concluded that the really dangerous one was the deacon, not the bishop.  Consequently, Valerius was exiled but Vincent remained in prison, where he underwent a series of tortures before being executed.

Early witnesses to Vincent's cult include St. Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, and St. Augustine of Hippo.  The last named eulogized Vincent annually on this day and we have from his pen no fewer than six sermons celebrating this saint.  Vincent's Passio in its standard form (BHL 8631) was in existence by the middle of the sixth century.  A briefer text (BHL 8638) may be close in content to a Passio that circulated in the fifth century.  On Vincent's early medieval cult in general, with editions of major texts, see Victor Saxer, Saint Vincent diacre et martyr: Culte et légendes avant l'An Mil (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2002; Subsidia Hagiographica, vol. 83).


Some period-pertinent images of Vincent of Zaragoza (or, if you prefer, of Saragossa; also V. of Huesca, V. of Valencia, and V. the Martyr) :

a) as depicted (third from left; after Sts. Demetrius and Polycarp) in the heavily restored, later sixth-century mosaics (c. 561) in the nave of Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo:
http://tinyurl.com/2foe88u

b) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 342):



c) as depicted (two scenes from his Passio) in the early eleventh-century frescoes of the central apse in the basilica di San Vincenzo in Galliano, a frazione of Cantù (CO) in Lombardy:
1) Undergoing torture by hot lead:
http://tinyurl.com/pgmpc2w
2) His corpse guarded by birds and being prepared for burial:
http://tinyurl.com/pt5qdy3

d) as depicted (in the soffit at right, second roundel from bottom) in the earlier twelfth-century mosaics (c. 1143) of the chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio (a.k.a. chiesa della Martorana) in Palermo:
http://tinyurl.com/7kxovph

e) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Germanus of Paris) in the frontispiece to a mid-twelfth-century collection of writings by Origen from the abbey of St.-Germain-des-Prés in Paris (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 11615, fol. 2v):
http://tinyurl.com/phxpbpn

f) as depicted (centre register, second from left, between his fellow deacons Sts. Peter of Marcellinus-and-Peter and Lawrence of Rome) in a probably mid- or slightly later twelfth-century mosaic (restored, 1859) in the choir of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù :


This second view  is greatly expandable:

g) as portrayed (martyrdom scenes) in a perhaps later twelfth-century relief (after c. 1160) in the Münster in Basel:



h) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Victor of Syria) in the later twelfth-century frescoes (1164) in the church of St. Panteleimon (Pantaleon) at Gorno Nerezi (Skopje municipality) in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/h2jgbg4
In Byzantine-rite churches both Victor and Vincent are celebrated on 11. November (in the Synaxary of Constantinople Vincent also occurs by himself under 22. January). That is also the feast day of St. Men(n)as the Egyptian, whose church in Constantinople is reported from the twelfth century as possessing relics of Vincent and Victor.

i) as portrayed in high relief (scenes) on his late twelfth-century polychromed stone cenotaph in the Basilica de los Santos Hermanos Mártires, Vicente, Sabina y Cristeta in Ávila:
http://tinyurl.com/z6fnpka
http://tinyurl.com/h5g48nc
The Clever Boy would add that these are a wonderful series of pictures of late Romanesque sculpture which has retained its paintwork - a delight to peruse.

j) as depicted (martyrdom) in one of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (c. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 28v, sc. 1B):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A028v_min_b1

k) as portrayed in high relief (birds guarding his corpse at sea) on the left pillar of the left portal of the late twelfth or early thirteenth-century south porch (by 1210) of the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame in Chartres:



l) as depicted (scenes of his life and martyrdom) in the early thirteenth-century St. Vincent window (bay 12; c. 1215) in the ambulatory of the cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Bourges:
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/bourges/12_pages/Bourges_Bay_12_key.htm

m) as depicted (scenes from his Passio) in panels from a mid-thirteenth-century glass window (1240s; from the abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris) in the Walters art Gallery and Museum, Baltimore:
http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77393/stained-glass-window-with-scenes-from-the-life-of-saint-vincent/
Gordon Plumb's post has links to other panels from the same window in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

n) as depicted (martyrdom) in a panel of a mid-thirteenth-century ambulatory window (Bay 201, panel A1; c. 1254) in the cathédrale Saint-Julien, Le Mans:
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/lemans/Clerestory/jpeg/Le_Mans_Bay_201_Panel_A1.jpg

o) as depicted (scenes of his life and martyrdom) on a later thirteenth-century altar frontal (parchment over wood; from the church of Santa María de Monte at Liesa [Huesca]) in the possession of the Diputación Provincial de Huesca (for better views click on the individual frames):



p) as depicted (sixth from left, after an archangel, St. Peter, the Christ child, the BVM, and St. Paul; the remaining two are St. Ambrose of Milan and St. Augustine's son Adeodatus, venerated in medieval Milan as a saint) in a later thirteenth-century fresco on the parapet of the Gospel ambo in the basilica di San Vincenzo in Galliano, a _frazione_ of Cantù (CO) in Lombardy:
http://tinyurl.com/mf7gqks
Detail view (Vincent):



q) as depicted (martyrdom) in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the Legenda aurea (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 24v):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000967A.jpg

r) as depicted (martyrdom) in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 78r):
http://tinyurl.com/yj8su7y
https://lafrancechretienne.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/martyr_de_saint_vincent.png

s) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between c.1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/40826

t) as depicted (second from right, lower register, in the panel at lower left; martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (between 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 16v):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/16v.jpg

u) as depicted (two scenes: preaching and undergoing martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (c. 1326-1350; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 101v):
http://tinyurl.com/yd8s4pf
Note that in these illuminations we seem to have evidence of that rare figure in church annals, the mitred deacon. In the first of these, the figure robed in blue is thought to depict Vincent's actual bishop, the confessor St. Valerius of Zaragoza.

v) as depicted in a panel of the mid-fourteenth-century great window (c. 1340-1350) in the choir of the Kirche St.-Vinzenz in Segringen (Lkr. Mittelfranken) in Bavaria: 
http://id.corpusvitrearum.de/images/3419.html

w) as depicted (martyrdom) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea, from the workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston, in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (1348; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 46v):
http://tinyurl.com/y8snjlq

x) as depicted (portrait; scenes) by the Master of Estopiñán in a later fourteenth-century triptych (c. 1350-1370) in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, Barcelona:



y) as depicted (the finding of his body) in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, ms. 266, fol. 48v):
http://tinyurl.com/jqau7dc

z) as depicted (his body about to be cast into the sea) in an early fifteenth-century copy of the Elsässische Legenda aurea (1419; Heidelberg, UB, Cod. Pal. germ. 144, fol. 295v):
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg144/0614

aa) as depicted (at left, martyrdom; at right, St. Vincent Ferrer) by Bernard (Bernat) Martorell in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg:



bb) as depicted (martyrdom) by the court workshop of Emperor Frederick III in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea (1446-1447; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. 326, fol. 38v):
http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7006832.JPG

cc) as depicted in grisaille by Jean le Tavernier in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Philip of Burgundy (c. 1451-1460; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 2, fol. 257v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f2%3A257v_min

dd) as depicted (scenes) by Nuno Gonçalves on several later fifteenth-century panels (c. 1451-1475) in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrepipa/5632595721/
A closer view of a copy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Lagos40_kopie.jpg
I posted about these great panels in St Vincentin 2011.

ee) as depicted by Jaume Huguet in five mid-fifteenth-century panels from a never-finished altarpiece (c. 1455-1460; for Barcelona's església de Sant Vicenç de Sarrià) in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, Barcelona:
1) Ordained priest by St. Valerius of Zaragoza:


2) Brought before the proconsul Datianus / Dacianus:



3) Martyrdom - torture by fire:


4) Martyrdom - torture on a cross-shaped eculeus:


5) Seekers for cures at his tomb:



ff) as depicted by Tomás Giner in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (between 1462 and 1466) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid:



gg) as depicted (at left; at centre, St. James the Great; at right, St. Eustace) by Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo in a later fifteenth-century panel painting (c. 1466-1468) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:
http://tinyurl.com/hu4or78



hh) as depicted (martyrdom) in a late fifteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (c. 1480-1490; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 244, fol. 54v):
http://tinyurl.com/ydw94le

ii) as depicted (at centre, between St. Michael the Archangel and St. Lawrence of Rome) in the central panel of the late fifteenth-century retable in the iglesia de San Vicente Mártir at San Vicente de Labuerda in Labuerda (Huesca):



jj) as portrayed in relief (image at right) on a guldiner of 1493 from Bern:
http://tinyurl.com/lfxwdh4

kk) as depicted (martyrdom) in the earlier sixteenth-century portion (c. 1540) of a window in the église Saint-Ouen at Pont-Audemer (Eure):
http://tinyurl.com/l29vh9d

Later John posted some additional images of St. Vincent:

1) as depicted (two scenes) in an eleventh-century troper from Autun (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal, 1169):
a) Martyrdom on a cross-shaped eculeus (fol. 14v, bas-de-page):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f34.item.r=Arsenal%201169.zoom
b) Martyrdom by fire (fol. 15r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000516z/f35.item.r=Arsenal%201169.zoom

2) as depicted (beaten with clubs) in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (c. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 215v):
http://tinyurl.com/hdruag4

3) as depicted (four scenes) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy of books 9-16 of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (c. 1335; Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080):
a) With St. Valerius of Zaragoza before Datianus / Dacianus (fol. 263r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f531.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom
b) Martyrdom on a cross-shaped _eculeus_ (fol. 263v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f532.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom
c) Martyrdom by fire (fol. 264r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f533.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom
d) Datianus / Dacianus orders the disposal of V.'s body; ravens protect it from a wolf (fol. 264v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55000813g/f534.item.r=arsenal%205080.zoom

4) as depicted in the very late fourteenth- or earlier fifteenth-century Breviary of Martin of Aragon (Paris, BnF, ms. Rothschild 2529, fol. 306v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52000996s/f614.item.zoom

5) as depicted by the Portuguese artist Frei Carlos (attrib.) in an earlier sixteenth-century panel painting (c. 1520-1530) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Museum website can be seen here: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435847

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Saint_Vincent%2C_Patron_Saint_of_Lisbon%2C_by_Frei_Carlos.png


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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Epiphany


To celebrate today's feast of the Epiphany here are the late medieval western depictions of the story of the visit of the Magi from a post by John Dillon on the Medieval Religion discussion group. I have chosen these because the Epiphany has produced so many images over the centuries that John's post would be too long to reproduce in extenso, and also reflecting my own particular interest in the later middle ages. The images can be seen in a larger size by clicking on the links at the bottom right

 Scenes attributed to Giovanni da Modena in his early fifteenth-century frescoes (c. 1410) in the cappella Bolognini of Bologna's basilica di San Petronio:


1) The Magi see the star and depart [click on the image to expand it]:
http://tinyurl.com/87zhx42
2)  Adoration of the Magi:
http://tinyurl.com/7g87f4v
3)  the Magi return by sea [click on the image to expand it]:
http://tinyurl.com/7n3cmnu




The Adoration of the Magi by Conrad of Soest on a wing of the Marienaltar (c. 1420) in the Marienkirche, Dortmund


The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano in a panel painting (1423) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence








Adoration of the Magi) by Beato Angelico in a mid-fifteenth-century fresco (c. 1440-1441) in cell 39 of the convento (now Museo nazionale) di San Marco, Florence








The Adoration of the Magi) by Beato Angelico and Filippo Lippi in a mid-fifteenth-century panel painting (1440s or 1450s) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
There is more about the painting at 



Adoration of the Magi by Andrea Mantegna in a panel painting on a retable of 1461. From the chapel of the Ducal palace at Mantua in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence




The Adoration of the Magi depicted by the Elmelunde workshop in a later fifteenth-century vault fresco (c. 1480) in Tingsted kirke, Tingsted, Guldborgsund Kommune (Region Sjælland), Denmark



Panel - Adoration of the Magi
The Adoration of the Magi on a later fifteenth-century alabaster panel, presumably from an altarpiece, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London




The Adoration of the Magi by Jaume Huguet in a later fifteenth-century panel painting in the Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat, Barcelona



High relief  of the Adoration of the Magi by Pieter Dancart on his late fifteenth-century high altar (c. 1488) in Seville's catedral de Santa María de la Sede:

eeee) as portrayed in high relief (Adoration of the Magi) by Johann von Ach on the late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century portail Saint-Laurent of Strasbourg's cathédrale Notre-Dame:
http://tinyurl.com/23mklv
For closer views, click on "statues" in the menu at right here:
http://tinyurl.com/2b2wpr
As depicted by the Elmelunde Master in a painting (c. 1500) in Elmelunde kirke, Elmelunde (Vordingborg Kommune), Sjælland, Denmark

High relief  of the Adoration of the Magi by Tilman Riemenschneider in a limewood relief panel (between c. 1505 and c. 1510) in the British Museum, London


High relief of the Adoration of the Magi by Jehan Soulas in the initial panels (1519-1521) of the earlier sixteenth-century choir screen in Chartres cathedral



High relief  of the Adoration of the Magi by Miguel Perrin on the tympanum of the earlier sixteenth-century Puerta del los Palos (c. 1520) of Seville's catedral de Santa María de la Sede
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Saturday, 26 September 2015

SS Cosmas and Damian


Today is the feast of SS Cosmas and Damian and John Dillon has once again posted a splendid selection of images together with an account of the origins of devotion to them on the Medieval Religion discussion group as follows:

The at least largely legendary Cosmas and Damian (d. early 4th cent., supposedly) are said to have been brothers from somewhere in the East (their region of origin is variously reported) who operated marvelous cures and who refused to accept compensation for their services. In Byzantine-rite churches they and St. Panteleimon constitute an informal upper tier within the category of physician-saints known as the Holy Unmercenaries (in Greek: Hagioi Anargyroi). In Italy they are often referred to simply as the Holy Doctors ("i Santi Medici"). That they perished in the Great Persecution seems, like most details of the the medieval accounts of their activities, to be either invention or conjecture. Cosmas and Damian are named in the Roman and Ambrosian canons of the Mass. In the revisions to the Roman Calendar promulgated in 1969 their feast was moved to September 26th. Byzantine-rite churches celebrate them on different days under three separate identities: Cosmas and Damian of Rome ( July 1st), Cosmas and Damian of Arabia ( October 17th), and Cosmas and Damian of Cilicia (November 1st).

Some period-pertinent images of Cosmas and Damian:

a) Cosmas and Damian (second from left and second from right; one introduced by St. Peter and the other by St. Paul) as depicted in the originally earlier sixth-century apse mosaic (c. 527-530) of Rome's basilica dei Santi Cosma e Damiano:



b) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (being crowned by Christ) in the earlier to mid-sixth-century mosaics of the north apse (carefully restored, 1890-1900) in the Basilica Eufrasiana in Poreč (the detail images are larger than is the overall view):


Detail view (Cosmas):



Detail view (Damian):



Detail view (Jesus):



c) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking, in the upper register, the three boys in the fiery furnace and, in the lower register, their own three martyred brothers Sts. Leontius, Euprepius, and Anthimus) in a sixth- or seventh-century wall painting from a house in Wadi Sarga in Egypt, now in the British Museum in London:
http://tinyurl.com/34c2joy

d) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an eighth- or perhaps earlier ninth-century fresco in the oratorio dei Quaranta Martiri in the Catacombe di Santa Lucia in Siracusa (Syracuse):



e) Cosmas as depicted in a deteriorated tenth- or eleventh-century fresco in the Grotta dei Santi in Pignataro Maggiore (CE; near Calvi Risorta) in northern Campania:



f) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 152):
http://www.br-faksimile.de/Menologion2.jpg

g) Cosmas as depicted in an earlier eleventh-century mosaic (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the narthex of church of the Theotokos in the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/qcbarwj

h) Cosmas and Damian as portrayed (at left and right in the lower register of saints flanking the ivory central panel) in the mid-eleventh-century book cover of the Gospels of Theophanu of Essen (between 1039 and c. 1058; Essen, Domschatzkammer, Hs. 3):


http://www.bodarwe.de/buch.jpg
Cosmas and Damian were the patron saints of the monastery at Essen of which this Theophanu was abbess.

i) Cosmas and Damian and their three martyred brothers Sts. Leontius, Euprepius, and Anthimus as depicted in a coloured pen-and-ink initial in the mid-twelfth-century martyrology and necrology of the abbey of Pontlevoy (ca. 1141-1142; Blois, Bibliothèque Abbé-Grégoire, ms. 44, fols. 8-79v, at fol. 62v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_053638-p.jpg

j) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo:
Cosmas:


Damian:



k) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the twelfth- or thirteenth-century frescoes (restored betw. 1992 and 1997) of the rupestrian chiesa / cripta San Leonardo at Massafra (TA) in southern Apulia:
1) Cosmas:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24271543@N03/5732304075/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77379511@N06/14424923361/
2) Damian:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24271543@N03/5732295853/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rita-restifo/14241667378/
3) in situ in the church:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77379511@N06/14241696790

l) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (detail view) in a later twelfth- or very early thirteenth-century fresco in the narthex of the originally early twelfth-century church of the Panagia Phorbiotissa at Asinou near Nikitari in the Republic of Cyprus:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89173218/De-Agostini
A full-length but distance view will be found in the panorama of the frescoes in the narthex accessible from this page:
http://cyprus.arounder.com/en/churches/asinou-church

m) Cosmas and Damian (martyrdom) as depicted by Villard de Honnecourt in an earlier thirteenth-century drawing (c. 1230; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 19093, fol. 27r):



n) Damian as depicted in the mid-thirteenth-century frescoes (1259) in the church of Sts. Nicholas and Panteleimon at Boyana near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia:
http://galenf.com/Bulgaria/36/bu_0017a.jpg

o) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking St. Panteleimon) in a later thirteenth-century fresco (either 1263-1270 or slightly later) in the nave of the church of the Holy Trinity in the Sopoćani monastery at Sopoćani (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/2cmfglq
Detail view of the saint at right (Damian?):
http://tinyurl.com/9f3md34

p) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in one of the later thirteenth-century frescoes (between 1270 and 1285) devoted to them in the diakonikon of the St. Demetrius cathedral at Mistra:
http://tinyurl.com/2fqagcg

q) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (attaching the black leg of an Ethiopian to a white man whose diseased leg they had removed) in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the Legenda aurea (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 132r; image greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/3cjxvl5

r) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted by Eutychios and Michael Astrapas in the late thirteenth-century frescoes (c. 1295) in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Kliment Ohridski) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/6eshpzr

s) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between c. 1312 and 1321/1322) of one of the domes of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/2wsvm8t

t) Cosmas as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between c. 1313 and c. 1320) of the nave of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/yc5stwe

u) Cosmas (at left) and Damian Cosmas as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1313 and 1318; conservation work in 1968) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the church of St. George at Staro Nagoričane in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7gebhof
Cosmas and Damian are also depicted at full length elsewhere in these frescoes.

v) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between c. 1317 and 1324) in the church of St. Demetrius in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/3akweqn
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/26gkcn5
Detail view (Damian):
http://tinyurl.com/2a5a6pq

w) as depicted (upper register in panel at upper left; raising their hands) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (between 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 15v):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/15v.jpg

x) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century French-language legendary of Parisian origin with illuminations attributed to the Fauvel Master (c. 1327; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 227v):
http://tinyurl.com/2ckxm63

y) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the church of the Holy Savior (Sv. Spas; a.k.a. church of the Presentation of the Theotokos) at Kučevište in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
Cosmas (detail of a full-length image):
http://tinyurl.com/np5pkat
Damian:
http://tinyurl.com/o672w9p

z) Cosmas and Damian (at left and centre; at right, St. Panteleimon) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/3jgsftt
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/3mvhn47
Detail view (Damian):
http://tinyurl.com/3ud7jap

aa) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (healing; martyrdom: stoning, crucifixion) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1335) of books 9-16 of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Arsenal 5080, fol. 229v):
http://tinyurl.com/qy9r2x8

bb) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in a September calendar composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1335 and 1350) of 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/yflqj7y

cc) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in two joint portraits in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1335 and 1350) in the nave of 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:
1) http://tinyurl.com/37dfvns
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/phyo3s7
2) http://tinyurl.com/342o797
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/3ywlm9w

dd) Cosmas (at left) and Damian as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (between 1335 and 1350) in the chapel of St. Demetrius 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/82zvmvo
Detail view (Cosmas):
http://tinyurl.com/6pwhwm2
Detail view (Damian [at right]):
http://tinyurl.com/7vmhzmj

ee) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in a mid-fourteenth-century copy (1348; from the workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston) of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol. 258r):
http://tinyurl.com/276u33e

ff) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the later fourteenth-century frescoes (1360s and 1370s; restored in 1968-1970) in the church of St. Demetrius in Marko's monastery at Markova Sušica (near Skopje) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
Cosmas:
http://tinyurl.com/qypm9vn
Damian:
http://tinyurl.com/paswc8m

gg) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in a later fourteenth-century book of hours according to the Use of Besançon (before 1398; Vesoul, Bibliothèque municipale, fol. 119r):
http://tinyurl.com/ycm6r7l

hh) Cosmas and Damian (at left) as depicted in the late fourteenth-century fresco of the Annunciation with Saints (1380s or 1390s) in the Salone del Consiglio of Volterra's Palazzo dei Priori:
http://tinyurl.com/paxywen

ii) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1400; Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, ms. 266, fol. 268v):
http://tinyurl.com/ozaozqh

jj) Cosmas and Damian as portrayed (lower register at centre) on their late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century reliquary shrine (c. 1400) in the St. Michaelskirche in Munich:


Detail view (Cosmas and Damian):
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zywe3eg9L.jpg

kk) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century icon in the Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art, Moscow:
http://www.icon-art.info/masterpiece.php?lng=en&mst_id=505

ll) Cosmas and Damian as depicted in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (c. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, fol. 343v):
http://tinyurl.com/y8qvtr6

mm) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (martyrdom) in an early fifteenth-century copy (1419) of the Elsässische Legenda aurea (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ. 144, fol. 131r):
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg144/0277

nn) Cosmas and Damian as depicted by Giovanni da Modena in two earlier fifteenth-century panel paintings (c. 1425-1435) in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:



oo) Cosmas and Damian as portrayed as portrayed by Donatello in an earlier fifteenth-century terracotta relief (between 1428 and 1445) in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri08.jpg

pp) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (being saved from drowning) by Zanobi Strozzi in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (c. 1435) in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence:
http://www.wga.hu/art/s/strozziz/2/stcosmas.jpg

qq) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (scenes from their Passio; eight expandable thumbnails) by Beato Angelico in predella panels, now in several museums, from his earlier fifteenth-century San Marco altarpiece (between 1438 and 1440):
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/angelico/07/index.html

rr) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking St. Lawrence of Rome) by Filippo Lippi in an earlier fifteenth-century panel painting (late 1440s) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:

Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors


http://www.wga.hu/art/l/lippi/filippo/1450/3lawren.jpg

ss) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (portraits and scenes from their Passio) by Miguel Nadal in his mid-fifteenth-century altarpiece (1453) in the capilla de San Cosme y San Damián in the Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Barcelona:



tt) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (main panel: flanking the BVM and Christ Child; predella: scenes from their Passio) by Sano di Pietro in an altarpiece of c. 1456 in the Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena:


Detail view (predella panels: removing the dead Ethiopian's leg and attaching it to the sick white man):






uu) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (on the predella; portraits and two scenes from their Passio) by Jaume Huguet on his mid-fifteenth-century altarpiece of Sts. Abdon and Sennen (1459-1460) in the església de Santa Maria at Terrassa (prov. de Barcelona):



Detail view (portraits):



Detail view (attaching the black leg of the Ethiopian to the sick white man):


Detail view (their martyrdom and that of their brothers):



vv) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (attaching the black leg of the Ethiopian to the sick white man) by the Master of Los Balbases in a later fifteenth-century panel painting seemingly from Burgos and now in the Wellcome Library, London:
http://nicholasspyer.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/img_1500.jpg
[unfortunately this has been uploaded at right angles to its proper axis ]

ww) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (martyrdom) in a later fifteenth-century copy (1463) of Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BmF, ms. Français 51, fol. 57r):



xx) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (martyrdom) by Jacques de Besançon in a late fifteenth-century copy of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1480-1490; Paris, BnF, ms. Français 245, fol. 111r):



yy) Damian as depicted by Bartolomé Bermejo in a late fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1490) in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon:



zz) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (left margin, second from top) in a hand-coloured woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century Weltchronik (Nuremberg Chronicle; 1493) at fol. CXXIIIIv:
http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/6th_age/left_page/28%20%28Folio%20CXXIIIIv%29.pdf

aaa) Cosmas and Damian as depicted by Dionisy and sons in the early sixteenth-century frescoes (1502) in the Virgin Nativity cathedral of the St. Ferapont Belozero (Ferapontov Belozersky) monastery at Ferapontovo in Russia's Vologda oblast:
Cosmas: http://www.dionisy.com/eng/museum/117/310/index.shtml
Damian: http://www.dionisy.com/eng/museum/121/320/index.shtml

bbb) Cosmas and Damian as depicted (flanking the BVM and Christ Child) in a remounted early sixteenth-century fresco (c. 1515) in the Pinacoteca civica in Como:
http://tinyurl.com/oole9wd

ccc) Cosmas and Damian as portrayed (attaching the black leg of the Ethiopian to the sick white man) in a mid-sixteenth-century polychromed and gilt wooden panel (c. 1547), attributed to Isidro de Villoldo, in the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid:




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