Tuesday, December 7, 2010

http://books.google.com/books?id=wAKmrAHj060C&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=utrecht+ms+32+fol.+67r&source=bl&ots=XdvWigp-DM&sig=7mfZqLk6VU4EHF4qvCBEF1KVK80&hl=en&ei=_Mf-TNHUCsf_nAeW6bTJCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=figure&f=false

magic scrolls

http://www.hamillgallery.com/ETHIOPIAN/EthiopianGospelScrolls/EthiopianScrolls.html

mushroom grail


Abraham meets Melchisedech (Mosaic in Basilica di San Marco, XIII century).
mushroom in chalice, right corner.


russian trinity icon

Friday, December 3, 2010

notes

Felicity Harley, "Invocation and Immolation : The Supplicatory Use of Christ's Name on Crucifixion Amulets of the ... me that it can be said with confidence that the wound in Christ's side is clearly rendered in the Crucifixion panel....


Early 6th century mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna with a depiction of the Women at the empty tomb similar to that on ampullae, though reversed and with no censer.


lozenge is most recurrent motif on glass pilgrim vessels

APPENDIX I The Lozenge and Circle The lozenge is the most recurrent motif on the glass pilgrim vessels. ... The association of lozenge and book can, however, be demonstrated from the Doubting Thomas scene on the Monza ampulla M.9....
--Bayt al-Maqdis: Jerusalem and early Islam,Julian Raby, Jeremy Johns

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

nativity icon -- rocks study

http://midsouthdiocese.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/nativity-icon.png
http://brianakira.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/nativity-romanian-icon.jpg
http://piotrbein.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/bozic21.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Iconnativity.jpg
http://kierannas.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/nativitycard.jpg

also: mary resting-- http://www.archdpdx.org/icon/marystaricon-pix4.jpg

and CAVES.

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