Σχετικά με ένα πιθανό έργο του ζωγράφου Ιωάννη Περμενιάτη στην Πάτμο.

Abstract

An interesting post-Byzantine icon depicting the Virgin Mary with Christ and Saint John the Baptist as an infant, is exhibited in the monastery of Zoodochos Pigi on Patmos. The characteristic rendering of its background strongly recalls a series of works attributed to the painter Ioannes Permeniatis which repeat identically certain landscape details. The attribution of the icon to the specific painter is also supported by its close affinity to two similar works associated with him: an icon belonging to a private collection and another kept in the National Gallery of Prague. Permeniatis, whose origin is still unknown, was living in Venice in the year 1523. The possibility that he was a native of Rhodes, where the place-name Parmeni is recorded, is strengthened by the stylistic affinity of his works with some eclectic Rhodian icons.