The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Production place
Painted in Constantinople
Date
1400 (circa)
Dimensions
Height: 378 millimetres
Width: 310 millimetres
Depth: 53 millimetres
The British Museum
Department: Prehistory and Europe
Registration number: 1988,0411.1
Additional IDs IC 18
Icon painted with egg tempera, with gilding, on a wooden panel faced with linen and gesso. Subject: the 'Triumph of Orthodoxy' (the Restoration of Images to Byzantium after Iconoclasm in AD 843). In the centre of the upper register is a representation of the Hodegetria icon, which was believed to have been painted by St Luke; to the left stand the Regent, Theodora, and her young son, the emperor Michael III, both in imperial regalia; to the right stand Methodios, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and three monastic supporters of the Iconophile cause. In the lower register are eleven historical Iconophile figures, some of them holding small icons. Seven of the figures can be identified as (from left to right): St Theodosia (1), St Theophanes the Confessor (5), St Theodore the Studite (6), St Theodore and St Theophanes, the Graptoi (7 and 8), St Theophylaktos (10) and St Arsakios (11).
This icon has been photographed under infrared light; the photographs are in the departmental object folder.
Published: The National Art Collections Fund Review 1988, 93-4; D. Buckton, Byzantium: Treasure of Byzantine Art and Culture, London, 1994, no 140.
Painted in Constantinople
Date
1400 (circa)
Dimensions
Height: 378 millimetres
Width: 310 millimetres
Depth: 53 millimetres
The British Museum
Department: Prehistory and Europe
Registration number: 1988,0411.1
Additional IDs IC 18
Icon painted with egg tempera, with gilding, on a wooden panel faced with linen and gesso. Subject: the 'Triumph of Orthodoxy' (the Restoration of Images to Byzantium after Iconoclasm in AD 843). In the centre of the upper register is a representation of the Hodegetria icon, which was believed to have been painted by St Luke; to the left stand the Regent, Theodora, and her young son, the emperor Michael III, both in imperial regalia; to the right stand Methodios, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and three monastic supporters of the Iconophile cause. In the lower register are eleven historical Iconophile figures, some of them holding small icons. Seven of the figures can be identified as (from left to right): St Theodosia (1), St Theophanes the Confessor (5), St Theodore the Studite (6), St Theodore and St Theophanes, the Graptoi (7 and 8), St Theophylaktos (10) and St Arsakios (11).
This icon has been photographed under infrared light; the photographs are in the departmental object folder.
Published: The National Art Collections Fund Review 1988, 93-4; D. Buckton, Byzantium: Treasure of Byzantine Art and Culture, London, 1994, no 140.