A portable icon of the crucifixion in the great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos
Abstract
The icon of the Crucifixion in the monastery of Great Lavra is the second side of a bilateral icon with its main subject the Virgin Hodegetria with twelve busts of the Apostles. The austere iconographic scheme of the icon with the depiction of the three protagonists only and the walls of Jerusalem as a background, upon which the figures are displayed was very widespread during the Palaiologan time. Similar are the results of the iconographic analysis of the faces which follow the types of the same period. In terms of rendering the painterly style leads to a dating of the icon in the third quarter of the 14th century and to a workshop of either Thessaloniki or Constantinople.
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ΤΣΙΓΑΡΙΔΑΣ Ε. Ν. (2011). A portable icon of the crucifixion in the great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 29, 151–158. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.616
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