Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 241 (attributed to Richard of Montbaston, 1348) / fol. 1-99
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 4: De sancta Lucia (December 13)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Lucy / Life / St Agatha appearing to Lucy

Further details

The iconography of this scene is unclear - however, Agatha's apparition to Lucy in a dream is the only passage in the Golden Legend that mentions Lucy together with another female saint.

Artist or creator

Richard de Monbaston (active in Paris by 1338, died in 1353 or earlier) (attributed)

Date

1348

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 241

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 13va.

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