Picturing Christ’s childhood: Some examples of a rare iconographic theme inspired by the infancy gospels

Picturing Christ’s childhood: Some examples of a rare iconographic theme inspired by the infancy gospels

This article examines Byzantine wall paintings dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth century depicting a rare iconographic theme of Jesus’s childhood inspired by the Infancy Gospels. The iconography shows the Virgin Mary leading the child Jesus by the hand. The child is depicted holding di...

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Main Author: Fundić Leonela
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade 2013-01-01
Series:Zograf
Subjects:
Child Christ
Virgin Mary
Infancy Gospels
Byzantine Art
Western Medieval Art
Schooling
St. John the Baptist
Crete
Greece
writing tablets
wicker basket
thirteenth and fourteenth century
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