An unknown work by Theophanis the Cretan at Meteora
Abstract
The formerly bilateral icon of the Dormition of the Virgin which, after a series of vicissitudes, is nowadays housed in the Sacristy of the Varlaam monastery at Meteora, used to belong to the church of the Dormition of the Virgin at Kalambaka. The icon is well known to the scholarly research and has been attributed to the son of Theophanes, Neophytos. However, a closer look on its iconography suggests otherwise as the icon is almost identical to the depiction of the Dormition in the monastery of Anapavsas at Meteora. The same can also be attested from its style, which is reminiscent of Andreas Ritzos’s, a characteristic of Theophanis, which make its attribution to the latter plausible and date it in 1527. Hence, this icon should be acknowledged as the earliest portable icon of his.
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ΤΣΙΓΑΡΙΔΑΣ Ε. Ν. (2011). An unknown work by Theophanis the Cretan at Meteora. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 22, 357–364. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.318
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