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Byzantine Icon Panel
A 14th-century Palaiologan liturgical object painted in tempera and gold leaf on wood, used for church veneration, private worship, and diplomatic gi…
Timeline
- c. 1350–1360Constantinople · ByzantineIn the mid-14th century, under Ottoman pressure, Byzantium still maintained the tradition of church icon veneration; wooden icon workshops produced images of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints in tempera, gold leaf, and gesso ground, serving Orthodox liturgy and private worship.
- 1360–1369Thessaloniki · MacedoniaWorkshops in Constantinople and Thessaloniki produced refined icon panels in the 1360s, with soft faces, flowing drapery, and mature layering techniques of gold ground and tempera; the works were used for church icon screens and aristocratic household altars.
- c. 1370–1453Constantinople · ByzantineByzantine icon panels spread to Russia, Serbia, Venice, and elsewhere as diplomatic gifts and church property; after the fall of the empire, Orthodox states continued the wooden icon tradition, and Byzantine panels became exemplary objects of Eastern Orthodox visual culture.
Sources
- Byzantine Art — Robin Cormack (2000)
- The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261 — Helen C. Evans (1997)