Today is the feast of St Matthew Apostle and Evangelist. This is going to be a long post, but I have several good friends called Matthew so I am posting this with them in mind.
As with others of this type it is based on posts by contributors to the Medieval Religion discussion group. As is my wont I have opened and copied and pasted many of the images. Flickr does not allow me to do that, nor do some picture gallery collections - so it is worth clicking on the links. Those I have reproduced can often be seen in larger format by clicking on the appropriate link to the lower right in each case. This is a particularly rich and varied selection of depictions of St Matthew and in various different mediums, and illustrates the vitality of art and artists over almost a thousand years.
Gordon Plumb opened the batting with these images in glass of St Matthew:
Bourges, Cathédrale St Étienne, Bay 208, central figure:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15892900515
Oxford, Merton College Chapel, sVIII:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6404996633
and detail of Matthew:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6405001663
Stanford-on-Avon, St Nicholas, Northamptonshire, nIII, A1, c.1324-30:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3248334106
Greystoke, Cumbria, east window, 2d, St Matthew in prison from the 15thC. window by York glaziers telling the story of St Andrew including his journey to Wronden to rescue St Matthew from prison there:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3016449814
Lincoln Cathedral, sXXIX.1, figure on left, St Matthew, c.1230:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/5458678395
Norbury, St Mary and St Barlok, Derbyshire east window, 2d-5d:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/17202988512
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16584465633
Oxford, Trinity College, Old Library, fourth east window, 2b:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16584465633
Elsing, St Mary, Norfolk, sII, 1b-3b:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6119382253
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6119927618
Gresford, All Saints, Lady Chapel, east window A4:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15243242579
York Minster, Great East window, 9a, evangelist symbol of St Matthew:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/8495136577
Attleborough, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Norfolk, wI:
three evangelist symbols of St Matthew:
D2:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3203829307
D3:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3204679596
F4:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/32046839165
Orchardleigh, St Mary, Somerset, sII, 3a:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/32046839164
Melbury Bubb, St Mary, Dorset, wI, B6 left-hand figure:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3480767394
Lincoln Cathedral, sII, 4a, the call of Matthew:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2258354521
Cartmel Priuory, Cumbria, east window, A4,angel symbol of St Matthew:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2893301352
Cartmel Priory, east window, A10:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2893315534
Bourges, Cathédrale St Étienne, Bay 37, 2nd from left:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4257389964
Chartres, St Père, Bay 219, lower right:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2842773067
Genevra Kornbluth added these images from her extensive photo library:
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/SaintMatthew.html
John Dillon then posted the following:
Further period-pertinent images of St. Matthew the Evangelist (NB: for convenience, I'm calling Matthew's tetramorphic image "his angel" throughout: for instances of its portrayal as an actual angel interacting with Matthew see items f, pp, ss, yy, and eee).
a) as depicted (second from top at right; above him, St. Andrew; below him, St. Paul) among the roundels of apostles framing the Theotokos and Christ Child in a sixth-century tapestry icon from Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (OH):
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/ph59gr6
b) as depicted in a late sixth-century mosaic formerly in the apse of the church of the Panagia Kanakaria at Lythrankomi in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and now in the Byzantine Museum in that part of Nicosia under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus:
c) as depicted (with his angel) in a full-page illumination in the earlier eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels (ca. 715-720; London, BL, MS Cotton Nero D. IV, fol. 25v):
d) as depicted (lower register; upper register, his angel) in the mid-eighth-century Gundohinus Gospels (Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 186v):
e) as depicted (lower register; upper register, his angel) in the mid-eighth-century Stockholm Codex Aureus (a.k.a. Codex Aureus of Canterbury; Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, MS A. 135, fol. 9v):
f) as depicted (with his angel) in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-century Godescalc Gospels (between 781 and 783; Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1203, fol. 1):
g) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the late eighth-or early ninth-century Coronation Gospels from Aachen (ca. 795-810; Vienna; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Weltliche Schatzkammer, Inv. Nr. XIII 18, fol. 15r):
http://tinyurl.com/pz8jqnz
h) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier ninth-century Ebbo Gospels (ca. 816-841; Épernay, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1, fol. 18v):
https://krizpots.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/ebbo.jpg
i) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a late ninth- or early tenth-century Gospels from Landévennec (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 2. 16, fol.28v):
j) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century Gospel lectionary from Constantinople (c. 976-1025; St. Catherine [So. Sinai], Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai, cod. 204, fol. 8r):
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=2464
k) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a later tenth- or earlier eleventh-century Gospels from Constantinople (c. 976-1025; Paris, BnF, ms. Coislin 20, fol. 10v):
http://tinyurl.com/p9g8utk
l) as depicted in the earlier eleventh-century mosaics (restored between 1953 and 1962) in the narthex of the church of the Theotokos in the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
m) as depicted in a full-page illumination in an earlier eleventh-century Gospels from Constantinople (Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 64, fol. 9v):
http://tinyurl.com/25h3ats
n) as depicted in the mid-eleventh-century mosaics in the katholikon of the Nea Moni on Chios:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/nea_moni/10.jpg
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/nsl72z6
o) as portrayed in high relief on a later eleventh-century ivory plaque of the Four Evangelists of Rhenish origin in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
The plaque as a whole:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129592/plaque-unknown/
p) as depicted in a twelfth-century copy of the Gospel of Matthew with gloss (Châlons-en-Champagne, Bibliothèques de Châlons, Bibliothèque Pompidou, ms. 78 [86], fol. 1r):
q) as depicted in a full-page illumination an earlier twelfth-century Gospels from Agen or from the abbey of Moissac (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 254, fol. 10r):
r) as depicted (with his angel) in an earlier twelfth-century legendary from the abbey of Cîteaux (between 1101-1133; Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 641, fol. 57r):
s) as depicted by the Kokkinobaphos Master in a full-page illumination formerly part of an earlier twelfth-century Gospels from Constantinople (c. 1126-1150; Mt. Athos, Monastery of Great Lavra MS A44) and now in the Walters Art Gallery and Museum, Baltimore (fol. W.530.Er):
http://tinyurl.com/qyang7m
t) as depicted (at left; at right, St. John the Theologian) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaic in the left aisle of Trieste's basilica cattedrale di San Giusto martire:
u) as depicted (upper register at center) in the mid-twelfth-century apse mosaics (completed in 1148) of the basilica cattedrale della Trasfigurazione in Cefalù:
v) as portrayed (at right; at left, St. Thomas) on a later twelfth-century gilt and enameled copper plaque of Mosan origin (c. 1160) in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (OH):
w) as portrayed in relief (at far right in this view, drinking from a cup) by Anselmo da Campione in his Last Supper panel on the later twelfth-century parapet (_pontile_; c. 1170-1180) in the cattedrale di San Geminiano in Modena:
x) as depicted in the later twelfth-century Last Judgment fresco (betw. 1176 and 1200) in the church of St. George in Staraya Ladoga:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=11&id=1447
y) as portrayed in relief (at left; at centre, St. Thomas; at right, St. Peter) on the late twelfth-century enameled copper reliquary châsse (of Limousin origin) of Sts. Calminus and Namadia in the église abbatiale St.-Pierre et St.-Caprais in Mozac (Puy-de-Dôme):
z) as portrayed (top row and the first two views in the following row; scenes of his legendary apostolate in Ethiopia) on a late twelfth-century capital found at Nazareth in 1908 and now mounted on a wall of the modern Church of the Annunciation there:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JuliannaLees/NazarethCapitals#
aa) as portrayed (at center; at right, St. John the Evangelist) in a late twelfth-century jamb statue on the Galluspforte (the north portal; ca. 1180-1190) of the Basler Münster:
bb) as portrayed in high relief on an earlier thirteenth-century enameled plaque (c. 1220-1230) from the main altar of the then priory church of St. Michael at Grandmont (Haute-Vienne) and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris:
cc) as portrayed in a statue on the earlier thirteenth-century Angel Pillar (c. 1230) in the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Strasbourg:
dd) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century fresco (between 1260 and 1263) in the nave of the church of the Holy Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć at 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/2clkpom
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/2e687k5
ee) as portrayed (second from left) in a silver gilt statuette on the later thirteenth-century copper gilt châsse of St. Remaclus (completed betw. 1263 and 1268) in the église Saint-Sébastien in Stavelot:
http://tinyurl.com/o2u8rsz
Detail view (zoomable image):
http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=KM3923&objnr=10074187&lang=en-GB&nr=1
ff) as depicted by Cimabue in a later thirteenth-century fresco (ca. 1277-1280) in the upper church of the basilica di San Francesco, Assisi (in a vault field that collapsed as a result of the earthquake of 1997; restoration completed, 2007):
Detail view:
http://www.wga.hu/art/c/cimabue/assisi/vault4.jpg
gg) as portrayed in a later thirteenth-century statue (ca. 1280) on a pillar in the inner choir of Köln's Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus und Maria:
hh) as depicted (at far left) by Duccio di Buoninsegna in his early fourteenth-century Maestà altarpiece (between 1308-1311) in the Museo del Opera del Duomo in Siena:
http://klp.pl/admin-malarstwo/images/d_duccio_duccio/d_duccio_duccio21.jpg
ii) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century fresco (c. 1310-1320), often attributed to Giotto di Bondone, in the lower church of the basilica di San Francesco, Assisi:
jj) as depicted by the workshop of Simone Martini in an early fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1317-1320) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.41633.html
kk) as depicted (centre panel, at left in upper register) by Ugolino di Nerio in an earlier fourteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1325-1330), from his dismembered Santa Croce altarpiece, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin:
ll) as depicted (martyrdom) 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. 49r):
http://tinyurl.com/2fumpvy
mm) as depicted (at left) by Bernardo Daddi in an earlier fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM with saints (1328) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:
nn) as depicted in a November calendar portrait in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 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/obejyr9
oo) as depicted (top centre; martyrdom ) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1355) of Ulrich of Lilienfeld's
Concordantiae caritatis (Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 151, fol. 214v):
pp) as depicted (with his angel) in a later fourteenth-century panel painting (betw. 1357 and 1367) by Theodoric of Prague and workshop in the Holy Cross Chapel, Karlštejn Castle (near Prague):
qq) 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:
rr) as depicted by Andrea Orcagna (M. as evangelist and as missionary in Ethiopia) in a later fourteenth-century triptych (ca. 1367; completed by Jacopo di Cione) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence:
ss) as depicted (at far right, with his angel) by Spinello Aretino in a late fourteenth-century triptych of the BVM and saints (1391) in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence:
tt) as portrayed in high relief (third from left) on the late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century tomb of St. Wendelin in his basilica in Sankt Wendel:
uu) as depicted (bottom register, at far right) by Lorenzo Monaco in a panel painting, from his dismembered early fifteenth-century San Benedetto altarpiece (1307-1309), in the National Gallery, London (image greatly expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/obhzaxp
vv) as portrayed by Bernardo Ciuffagni in an early fifteenth-century statue (between 1410 and 1415) for the facade of the cathedral of Florence (statue now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo):
ww) as depicted (driving off two dragons in Ethiopia) in the early fifteenth-century Châteauroux Breviary (ca. 1414; Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 337v):
xx) as depicted in a full-page illumination in the earlier fifteenth-century Radoslav Gospel from Serbia (1428-1429; Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, ms. РНБ. F.I.591, fol. 1r):
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=4827
yy) as portrayed in relief (with his angel) by Donatello in an earlier fifteenth-century terracotta roundel (betw. 1428 and 1445) in the old sacristy of Florence's basilica di San Lorenzo:
http://www.wga.hu/art/d/donatell/2_mature/sacristy/1sacri09.jpg
zz) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Francis of Assisi) by Giovanni di Paolo in an early fifteenth-century predella panel (ca. 1435) , from a dismembered altarpiece, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
aaa) as depicted in the Suffrages in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Catherine of Cleves (ca. 1440; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, ms. M.917, p. 231; image greatly expandable):
http://www.themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-catherine-of-cleves/88
bbb) as depicted in a full-page illumination in a mid-fifteenth-century Armenian-language Gospels (1456; Paris, BnF, ms. Arménien 18, fol. 28v):
http://tinyurl.com/23aqaud
ccc) as portrayed in a polychromed and gilt later fifteenth-century wooden statue from Brabant (ca. 1470) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
ddd) as depicted (at left; at right, St. Simon the Zealot) by Miguel Ximénez and workshop in a panel of his and Martín Bernad's late fifteenth-century altarpiece of the Holy Cross (completed, 1487) for the parish church of Blesa (Teruel) and now, after dismemberment, mostly in the Museo de Zaragoza:
eee) as depicted (with his angel) in a late fifteenth-century breviary according to the Use of Besançon (before 1498; Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 69, p. 772):
To all those wonderful and varied images I will add this additional one, from the statues in King Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey:
The particular interest of this statue is that St Matthew is shown wearing spectacles - he is supposed to have weakened his eye-sight when he was working as a tax collector
Image: westminster-abbey.org
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