1482
Wood, tempera
135 х 111

The earliest of the works of Dionysus to have come down to us. As the chronicles tell us, during the fire of 1482 an icon of Greek origin was burnt and lost its paint layer. Dionysus was commissioned to paint a new image on this wooden panel following the same iconographic schema. The icon as renewed by Dionysus preserves the special features of ancient iconography of the miracle-working image of the Odegon monastery in Constantinople. According to the testimony of the chronicle, this was done “in the very same extent, in the very same image.” The painting of the icon, and in particular the depiction of the faces, shows all signs of Dionysus’ manner. The features of the faces have been drawn in his characteristically elegant and light manner.

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