An icon of St George in the byzantine museum, athens, attributed to Georgios Klontzas
Abstract
In 1916 the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens acquired an icon which, in an urban scenic as its background, depicts the equestrian Saint George killing the dragon and setting free the princess. The panel in artistic terms, according to the evidence from the approximately fifty artworks of Klontzas along with the same in subject and signed icon of his at the Museum Benaki, can too be attributed to him. What is more, this attribution is corroborated by the artistic merits and the iconographic details which resemble the hand of Klontzas and which offer as a dating frame the last quarter of the 16th century. Finally, special mention should be made to the secularization of the subject, which suggests that the function of the painting should be acknowledged as different from the religious one.
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ΑΧΕΙΜΑΣΤΟΥ-ΠΟΤΑΜΙΑΝΟΥ Μ. (2011). An icon of St George in the byzantine museum, athens, attributed to Georgios Klontzas. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 22, 77–86. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.293
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