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  • Record Number: 4278
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Valdez Del Alamo , Elizabeth
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  • Title: Triumphal Visions and Monastic Devotion: The Annunciation Relief of Santo Domingo de Silos
  • Source URL: Gesta (Full Text via JSTOR) 29, 2 (1990): 167-188. Link Info target = '_blank'>Gesta (Full Text via JSTOR) 29, 2 (1990): 167-188. Link Info
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Sculpture Dominic of Silos, Saint Iconography Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Art Mary, Virgin, Saint- Coronation in Art Monks Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain- Monastery of Santo Domingo- Annunciation- Coronation Relief in Cloister
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: 12
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  • Illustrations: Twenty-four figures. Figure One Relief of Annunciation-Coronation (Burgos, Santo Domingo de Silos, cloister, southwest pier). Figure Two Relief of Annunciation, Jesse Tree (Burgos, Santo Domingo de Silos, cloister, southwest pier). Figure Three Painting of Annunciation (Rome, catacomb of Priscilla). Figure Four Manuscript illumination of Virgin and Child Enthroned, Gospel Book of St. Bernward of Hildesheim (Hildesheim, Cathedral Treasury, MS 18, fol. 17). Figure Five Carved capital of Annunciation (Burgos, Santo Domingo de Silos, cloister, capital 38). Figure Six Ivory relief of Annunciation, later Court School of Charlemagne (Cologne, Schnütgen Museum). Figure Seven Relief from Roman Sarcophagus of King Ramiro II of Aragon (Huesca, San Pedro el Viejo, cloister). Figure Eight Relief of Sol (Burgos, Santa María, Quintanilla de las Viñas). Figure Nine Ivory book cover of Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin, Gospel Book of Otto III (Munich, Staatsbibliothek, MS CLM 4453). Figure Ten Manuscript illumination of Annunciation, Gospel Book of Otto III (Aachen Cathedral Treasury, fol. 125). Figure Eleven Roman gold glass bowl depicting marriage scene (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1915, 15.168). Figure Twelve Manuscript illumination of Annunciation (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, MS Ashb. 17, fol. 66). Figure Thirteen Manuscript illumination of Ildefonsus praying to Mary (Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, MS 1650, fol. 9v). Figure Fourteen Apse mosaic of Virgin and Child Enthroned (Rome, Santa Maria in Domnica). Figure Fifteen Relief of Annunciation- Coronation (Soria, church of Villasayas). Figure Sixteen Relief of Annunciation- Coronation (Burgos, San Pedro, Gredilla de Sedano). Figure Seventeen Sculpted capital of Annunciation (Soria, cathedral of El Burgo de Osma). Figure Eighteen Carved capital of Annunciation- Coronation (La Rioja, church of Santo Domingo de la Calzada). Figure Nineteen Column figures of Annunciation- Coronation and Assumption (Alava, Laguardia, San Juan). Figure Twenty Apse capital of Annunciation and Visitation (Burgos, church of San Juan de Ortega). Figure Twenty-one Capital friezes of Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity (Navarre, Estella, San Miguel). Figure Twenty-two Capital frieze of Annunciation (Navarre, church of Eguiarte). Figure Twenty-three Baldachin capital of Appearance of Mary (Soria, San Juan de Duero). Figure Twenty-four Archivolt relief of Annunciation, dove of the Holy Spirit (Navarre, Tudela, Santa Magdalena).
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  • Author's Affiliation: Montclair State College
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available
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