XI. Likeness and Presence: Portrait Icons before Iconoclasm
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XI. Likeness and Presence: Portrait Icons before Iconoclasm InSitu | Flashcards | Help
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| Painted Icons from Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai | |
| Pantokrator, encaustic on panel, 6th century |
| Pantokrator, encaustic on panel, 6th century, Detail: Head |
| Christ--"Semitic Type", encaustic on panel, 6th century |
| Saint Peter with medallions of Christ, Mary and John the Evangelist, encaustic on panel. 6th century |
| Comparison: Fayoum Portrait (Berlin) |
| Comparison: Diptych of Isis and Serapis, 2nd century (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum) |
| Madonna and Child with angels, and Saints Theodore and George, encaustic on panel, 6th century |
| Madonna and Child with angels, and Saints Theodore and George, encaustic on panel, 6th century, Detail: Madonna and child |
| Icon of Madonna and Child from Santa Maria Nova, Rome, 6th. Cen., Detail: Head of Madonna |
| Lateran Christ Enthroned, Sancta Sanctorum, Rome, 7th. century with later medieval silver revetment |
| Lateran Christ Enthroned, copy from Tivoli Cathedral, 12th century |
| Madonna della Clemenza, Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, 705-07 |
| Later Copies of early Byzantine types | |
| Hodegetria, ivory panel from Constantinople, 11th century copy of 5th-century? type (Utrecht, Rijksmuseum Het Catherijneconvent) |
| Mandylion (Face of Christ), San Bartolomeo degli Armeni, Genova, early 14th. Century Byzantine |
| Mandylion, 12th cen. Panel from Novgorod, (Moscow, Tretakov Gallery) |