A Cretan icon of the Virgin with Child and supplicating Saints, in a private collection
Abstract
A portable icon depicting the Virgin in the middle, standing with the Christ child in her arms and flanked by two supplicating saints, Saints George and Roch is the work of a renowned Cretan workshop of the second half of the 16th century. The iconographic and stylistic analysis of the icon specially emphasizes the compositional format of the figures, which recalls that of the Deesis and to the representation of St. Roch which follows its Western prototypes. Cretan refugees probably transferred the icon to Monevmvasia and in the second half of the 18th century the icon underwent a renovation. Responsible for the latter which remodeled St. Roch to St. Peter was probably a certain Peter Kallonas, whose name is included in an inscription written on that icon.
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ΚΑΖΑΝΑΚΗ-ΛΑΠΠΑ Μ. (2011). A Cretan icon of the Virgin with Child and supplicating Saints, in a private collection. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 21, 157–172. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.557
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