Against the Day - page 255 - Mansueto

[Ian Livingston]

Hm. Maybe,then, the Mansueti mention could be an offhand allusion to time
displacement / travel?


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems this picture is called The Arrest of St Mark from the Synagogue.
> Perhaps another of TRP's internal resonances as Mark's Gospel---Mark's,
> long thought to be ( until recently) the oldest Gospel; the one which
> went----all the way back,---maybe figures later in AtD.
>
> Islamic individuals and costumes often provided the contextual backdrop to
> describe an evangelical scene. This was particularly visible in a set of
> Venetian paintings in which contemporary Syrian, Palestinian, Egyptian and
> especially Mamluk personages are employed anachronistically in paintings
> describing Biblical situations.[23] An example in point is the 15th century
> The Arrest of St. Mark from the Synagogue by Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti
> which accurately describes contemporary (15th century) Alexandrian Mamluks
> arresting Saint Mark in an historic scene of the 1st century CE.[23]
> Another case is Gentile Bellini's Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria.[24]
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:54 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > He appears to have painted some dogs too
> >
> >
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Giovanni_di_Niccol%C3%B2_Mansueti_001.jpg
> >
> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4LVK4owNIhs/UGR6lHRVb5I/AAAAAAAABJ8/dDLSLvO8zHw/s1600/IMG_5877.JPG
> > http://www.artclon.com/images/201008/goods_img/14568_G_1280797267552.jpg
> >
> > J
> >
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> There is a Mansueti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Mansueti
> >>
> >> maybe an alternate spelling (or typo)
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
> >>> AtD, page 255:
> >>> "Pugnax arrived in the company of Mostruccio, a small, ill-humored
> Venetian
> >>> dog, with an ancestral resemblance to those observed in works of
> Carpaccio,
> >>> Mansueto, [...]
> >>>
> >>> Atd Wiki does not offer more on this Mansueto. Maybe is a fictitious
> artist?
> >>> Could it be a pun of some sort? Anyone an idea?
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