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A Cretan Icon of the Descent into Hell in a Private Collection

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• Καλαφάτη,  Καλλιόπη-Φαίδρα
• ΚΑΛΑΦΑΤΗ, Καλλιόπη-Φαίδρα

The icon of the Descent into Hell (0.495 x 0.46 m.) was located in 1998, in the Temple Gallery, London, in excellent condition. The representation follows a Palaiologan model, the closest comparandum being the wall-painting in the church of the Peribleptos at Mystras, as this was elaborated by Cretan painters in a series of fifteenth-century icons. These works, which display minor iconographic differences, were to be the exemplar for the iconography of the Anastasis (Resurrection) in most portable icons of the Post-Byzantine period. Iconographic elements and stylistic traits ascribe the icon to a Cretan workshop of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.

• History and Archaeology
• Arts

• Arts and religion

15th/ 16th century, portable icons, Cretan icons, Resurrection, 15ος/16ος αιώνας, φορητές εικόνες, κρητικές εικόνες, εις Άδου Κάθοδος

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• http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/article/view/4169
• http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/dchae.302