A Cretan icon of the Descent into Hell in a private collection
Abstract
The icon of the Descent into Hell (0.495 x 0.46 m.) was located in 1998, in the Temple Gallery, London, in excellent condition. The representation follows a Palaiologan model, the closest comparandum being the wall-painting in the church of the Peribleptos at Mystras, as this was elaborated by Cretan painters in a series of fifteenth-century icons. These works, which display minor iconographic differences, were to be the exemplar for the iconography of the Anastasis (Resurrection) in most portable icons of the Post-Byzantine period. Iconographic elements and stylistic traits ascribe the icon to a Cretan workshop of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.
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ΚΑΛΑΦΑΤΗ Κ.-Φ. (2011). A Cretan icon of the Descent into Hell in a private collection. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 22, 173–180. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.302
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