Before we leave St Dominic's current feast day I will share some further medieval images of St Dominic which have been posted on the Medieval Religion discussion group site by John Dillon. I have opened some of the links:
a) as portrayed in an originally earlier thirteenth-century panel painting of Sienese origin (ca. 1235-1240; head reworked in its present form ca. 1280-1285) in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:
b) as portrayed in relief by Nicola Pisano on panels for Dominic's sarcophagus (betw. 1264 and 1267) in what is now the central portion of the Arca di San Domenico in the basilica di San Domenico in Bologna:
1) (lower register at right) miracle of the unburnt book:
http://tinyurl.com/qzf2djk
2) (central register, holding up the resuscitated Napoleone Orsini; this panel thought to be largely the work of Arnolfo di Cambio):
http://tinyurl.com/nrjo3po
c) as depicted (at right; at left, the martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr) in the late thirteenth-century Livre d'images de Madame Marie (ca. 1285-1290; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition française 16251, fol. 93r):
http://tinyurl.com/ylfo3wn
d) as depicted (being blessed, along with the brethren, by Honorius III) in a late thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the Legenda aurea (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 91v; image greatly expandable):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000941A.jpg
e) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Francis of Assisi) in the frontispiece to an late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century hymnal of German origin (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS W.24, fol. 1v):
g) as depicted (scenes) in a leaf from the earlier fourteenth-century Hungarian Angevin Legendary. Made in Bologna, Italy or Hungary.Perhaps commissioned by King Charles Robert of Anjou, King of Hungary (1292-1342) ;other suggested patrons are CsanaÌd Telegdi, a bishop in Hungary, and Jacob of Piacenza, a royal doctor and bishop of CsanaÌd. (ca. 1325-1345; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.360.26):
Zone 1:
1) Dominic of Bologna: Scene, Self-Punishment -- Dominic of Bologna, nimbed, tonsured, nude, bleeding, kneels before bed and whips himself with scourge in both hands (flagellation), before robes laid out before him. Two lamps hang from ceiling.
1) Dominic of Bologna: Scene, Self-Punishment -- Dominic of Bologna, nimbed, tonsured, nude, bleeding, kneels before bed and whips himself with scourge in both hands (flagellation), before robes laid out before him. Two lamps hang from ceiling.
2) Dominic of Bologna: Scene, addressing Monks (?) -- Dominic of Bologna, nimbed, tonsured, in Dominican habit, sits with book in lap and right hand raised in blessing before three kneeling tonsured Dominicans. Nimbed angel, with object in right hand, looks down on them from window.
Zone 2:
3) Dominic of Bologna: Scene, Miracle of Three Candles -- In portal, veiled woman kneels with joined hands raised in prayer, before basket containing white towel wound around three burning candles.
4) Dominic of Bologna: Scene, unidentified -- Tonsured cleric, possibly Dominican, in blue and white robes raises hands before woman, possibly personification of Mercy, veiled, standing in portal, with right arm raised indicating image of Christ of Sorrows, cross-nimbed, with arms crossed, above.
Scenes in frames decorated with foliate ornament.
h) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (betw. 1326 and 1350) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 185, fol. 240v):
http://tinyurl.com/2cjhg62
i) 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. 188v):
http://tinyurl.com/28j4yv9
j) as depicted in fresco (lower register at right, preaching; at left, two other Dominican saints; below them other Dominicans represented punningly as black-and-white dogs, Dominici canes) by Andrea da Firenze (Andrea di Bonaiuto) and assistants in a detail of their later fourteenth-centuryThe Way of Salvation (ca. 1365-1368) in the Cappellone degli Spagnoli in the basilica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence:
http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=1197
l) as depicted (at right, flanking the BVM and Christ Child; at left, St. Zenobius of Florence) by Beato Angelico in an earlier fifteenth-century fresco (ca. 1437-46) in the Museo nazionale di San Marco in Florence:
m) as depicted (his celestial vision; his meeting with St. Francis of Assisi) by Benozzo Gozzoli in a mid-fifteenth-century fresco (1452) in the apsidal chapel of the chiesa di San Francesco in Montefalco:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435616
o) as depicted (miracle of the unburnt book; his vision of heaven) in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1480-1490) of the Legenda aurea in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 245, fol. 23r):
http://tinyurl.com/3gx7okf
