Icon of Christ almighty in the Koutloumousiou monastery and the tendency to revert to models found in the painting of the protaton during the sixteenth century
Abstract
The despotic icon of Christ Pantodynamos (Omnipotent) has survived from the old iconostasis of the Koutloumousiou monastery on Mt Athos. iconography and style are characteristic of the Cretan School and are encountered in the oeuvre of Theophanes. Nonetheless, differences observed in the modelling and the rendering of the figure’s corporeal volume reveal a trend of return to the models of the painting in the Protaton, a phenomenon which, ca 1540, can be detected also in the wall-paintings decorating the katholikon of the Koutloumousiou monastery, the Molyvokklisia church and other monuments.
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ΣΙΩΜΚΟΣ Ν. Δ. (2011). Icon of Christ almighty in the Koutloumousiou monastery and the tendency to revert to models found in the painting of the protaton during the sixteenth century. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 29, 139–150. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.615
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