The Early Christian wall paintings in the church of the Panagia Drosiani on Naxos and their historical context
Abstract
The mural paintings of Panagia Drosiani in Naxos have been the subject of past scholarship for their quality and significance. The scope of this brief reexamination is to place the iconographic programme of the church into its broader historical and theological context, that of the 7th century A.D. According to the analysis, the programme reflects the Christological disputes of the second half of the 7th century, which ended with the Sixth Ecumenical Council of 680/1. Moreover, Pope Martin I, who spend the year 653 exiled in Naxos, might have exerted some indirect influence either in the configuration or in the conceptualization of the programme. A dating in the second half of the 7th century is corroborated also by the art of the frescoes, which are listed among the few examples with profound classicizing reminiscences.
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ΓΚΙΟΛΕΣ Ν. (1999). The Early Christian wall paintings in the church of the Panagia Drosiani on Naxos and their historical context. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 20, 65–70. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.1193
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