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Summary
Saint Christopher (depicted with the head of a dog) ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
Saint Christopher (depicted with the head of a dog)
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
English:
Kermira, Cappadocia St Christopher depicted with the head of a dog. From the 5th century on, it was widely believed in Byzantium that the saint was one of the mythic dog-heads, a barbarian race without the gift of human speech. Nevertheless his depiction as a dog-head had not been the dominant in the Byzantine art, since the Byzantine Church frowned upon the linking of one of its saints with the cynocephali. In the post-Byzantine art, though, especially from the 17th c. onwards, the Orthodox artists several times paint the Saint as a dog-head.
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Date |
17
th
century
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Medium | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 67 cm (26.3 in); width: 35 cm (13.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,67U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,35U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1018775
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Accession number |
ΒΧΜ 01571
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Place of creation | Kermira, Cappadocia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | http://www.ebyzantinemuseum.gr/?i=bxm.en.exhibit&id=59 |
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