La représentation de la composition iconographique des saints Quarante Martyrs de Sébaste, qui se distingue par sa grande complexité et la multitude de ses personnages, présente un intérêt particulier. Dans la peinture monumentale byzantine, ils sont souvent figurés comme des saints individuels, vêtus de manière militaire et insérés dans de vastes compositions décoratives, comme on…
The visual representation of local saints is closely tied to the veneration they received, as well as to the broader mechanisms of cultic promotion and dissemination. The recurrence of such portrayals serves as a barometer of a saint’s cultic vitality and its entrenchment in collective memory. These iconographic traces provide compelling evidence of the devotional…
This paper examines two case studies from sixteenth-century Cyprus to reconsider the relationship between politics and aesthetics in Byzantium beyond Byzantium. In Agios Sozomenos, a now-abandoned village near Nicosia, a cave chapel dedicated to the eponymous “healing saint” developed into a cult site from the ninth century. Its continued importance to both locals and pilgrims…
The proposed paper will explore the production of innovative iconography in shrines of local saints in the period from the 10th to the 13th century. In different regions of the Byzantine world (e.g. Saint Neophytos at Paphos in Cyprus, Hosios Loukas in Lokris, southern Greece, Saint Paul the New at Latros in Asia Minor, Saint…