An icon of Sts Ioulitta and Kerykos in the Byzantine Museum. Iconographical observations
Abstract
The Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens owns in its collection a portable icon of the Saints Ioulitta and Kerykos which came in the latter's possession after a confiscation. The icon has a two-zone configuration; in the upper zone in frontal posture, Saint Ioulitta holds in her lap her son Saint Kerykos, while in the lower zone the martyrdom of the two saints, on the left Saint Kerykos's and on the right Saint Ioulitta's. The iconographic study of this work adds a unique example, which features the combination of their depiction as saints and their martyrdom to the merely few paradigms of their representations in Late and Post-Byzantine art. The icon can be dated by its stylistic traits in the 16th century.
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ΚΑΤΣΕΛΑΚΗ Α. (2011). An icon of Sts Ioulitta and Kerykos in the Byzantine Museum. Iconographical observations. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 22, 181–190. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.303
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