Two unusual scenes from lives of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostomos in the monastery of Hagioi Tessarakontes, Chrysafa (Lakonia), by Georgios Moschos (1620)
Abstract
The decoration of the katholikon of the monastery of Hagioi Tessarakontes (Holy Forty Martyrs) at Chrysafa, Lakonia, executed in 1620 by the important painter Georgios Moschos, includes two rarely-depicted scenes from the lives of the great Fathers of the Church and authors of the two most important divine liturgies, St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom. These are the miraculous intervention of St. Basil the Great in the Orthodox-Arian conflict at Nicaea (Bithynia) during the reign of the emperor Valens, and the reinstatement of the relics of St. Chrysostom on his prelatic throne in the church of Hagia Eirene following the translation of his relics to Constantinople from Komana, Trebizon. Starting from these two representations, the present study offers observations on the iconography of the lives of the two hierarchs, followed by an attempt to provide an iconographic analysis of the two scenes and include them within the context of the biographical cycles of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom as these were shaped in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine painting.
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ΠΑΠΑΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ Τ. (2016). Two unusual scenes from lives of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostomos in the monastery of Hagioi Tessarakontes, Chrysafa (Lakonia), by Georgios Moschos (1620). Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 35, 229–244. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.1756
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