An icon of the Entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in Late – and Post-Byzantine icon-painting
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On the occasion of the study of an unpublished icon of the Entry into Jerusalem in a private collection in London, the present paper seeks to identify the archetypal composition that it reproduces. Based on its dimensions (44.90×33.40 cm), the icon can be classified as a Dodekaorton icon, which would have adorned the epistyle of an iconostasis. As the prototype of this composition, an icon in the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is proposed. This work may be attributed to a Constantinopolitan painter and dated to the seventh or eighth decade of the fourteenth century. The London icon (Constantinople, ca. 1400), as well as an icon from Lefkas (Crete, third quarter of the 15th century), most likely reproduce the Williamstown icon.
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VASSILAKI (Μαρία ΒΑΣΙΛΑΚΗ) M. (1994). An icon of the Entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in Late – and Post-Byzantine icon-painting . Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 17, 271–284. Retrieved from https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/article/view/45045
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