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The scene of the martyrdom of Saint Demetrios in post-Byzantine art
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This study is devoted to iconographic types of presentations of the martyrdom of St. Demetrios in post-Byzantine art, but it also includes later examples from the 18th and the 19th centuries, when the scene was entirely simplified. It also discusses the inclusion of presentations of the death of St. Demetrios in other iconographic cycles, as well as its significance for the iconographic formulae in presentations of the death of some other saints.
Title: The scene of the martyrdom of Saint Demetrios in post-Byzantine art
Description:
This study is devoted to iconographic types of presentations of the martyrdom of St.
Demetrios in post-Byzantine art, but it also includes later examples from the 18th and the 19th centuries, when the scene was entirely simplified.
It also discusses the inclusion of presentations of the death of St.
Demetrios in other iconographic cycles, as well as its significance for the iconographic formulae in presentations of the death of some other saints.
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