Icon with Christ Pantepotes and the Chorus of Saints
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14th–15th century · Steatite · Medieval Art
This complex icon composition contains more than one hundred tiny figures. In the center sits Christ, identified as Overseer of All. Twelve scenes from Christ’s life surround the central image. Panels with “choruses” of saints frame the icon, each showing Christ Emmanuel blessing a different group of saints, named in inscriptions.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 14th–15th century
- Medium
- Steatite
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1963
