A note on the literary sources of a painted epigram from Patmos

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Published: Aug 4, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.26261
Keywords:
Post-Byzantine period iconography icons icon epigrams St Christodoulos Nikephoros Chartophylax monastery of St John the Theologian Patmos.
Θεοδώρα ΑΝΤΩΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ (Theodora ANTONOPOULOU)
Professor of Byzantine Litterature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Abstract
This short article deals with the identification of the literary sources of an anonymous epigram found on some Patmian icons from the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century, which depict Saint Christodoulos, founder of the Monastery of Patmos. It shows that the epigram draws not only on certain orations by Gregory of Nazianzus, but also on the Life of the saint by John, Metropolitan of Rhodes. Thus, the article sheds light on the education of the versifier (probably Nikephoros Chartophylax), while stressing the Patmian production environment of both the text and the icon imagery that the epigram was destined to accompany.
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