Between Byzantium and the West: The Iconography of Franciscan Saints in Post-Byzantine Icons
Between Byzantium and the West: The Iconography of Franciscan Saints in Post-Byzantine Icons
Author(s): Aikaterini-Konstantina KontopanagouSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History of Art
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Franciscan saints; St. Antony of Padua; epidemics; Peloponnese; Post-Byzantine iconography, Venetocracy
Summary/Abstract: The current research topic is the dissemination of Western saints throughout the Latin-controlled regions of the Greek-speaking Post-Byzantine world. The epidemics, especially of bubonic plague, which ravaged Europe from the 14th to the 18th century, served to increase the veneration of Franciscan healing saints. The starting point of this paper is an unpublished icon from a private collection in the Western Peloponnese (Greece). The icon exhibits the standard iconography of St. Anthony. No painter’s signature survived.
Journal: Изкуствоведски четения
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 265-278
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
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