Details

Subject(s)

• Engraving—19th century [Browse]
• Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church [Browse]
• Christian art and symbolism—Modern period, 1500-—Greece [Browse]

Publisher

• Antonio Bortoli (Firm : Venice, Italy) [Browse]

Notes

• Princeton copy 1 Paper icon (an engraved copper print) depicts the Monastery of Vatopedi in Mount Athos, Greece. Inscription below the main scene provides information about the donor of this engraving named Kyr Arsenios from Zakynthos: "Hē parousa Hiera kai Vasilikē Monē tēs Megistēs Lauras tou Vatopediou echalkocharachthē di’exodōn tou Panosiōtatou Proēgoumenou tēs autēs Monēs Kyrou Arseniou tou ek tēs Nēsou Zakynthou, hina dōrean charizētai tois Orthodoxois Christianois, charin eulaveias. En etei 1792 en Venetia.” A second inscription at the bottom of the print reads: "Hē chalkocharactos hautē ō theata, gegonen di'epitagēs tou hōs anōthen horas. All' epei pro tēs katavolēs tōn analōmatōn to koinon tē physei ekeinos eleitourgēsen ho hierologiōtatos kyr Prokopios Kartsiōtēs tēn timēn tōn argyriōn katavalōn, aphieroi tautēn, en hē epigraphetai, pros mnēmosynon tōn autou gennētorōn Nikolaou kai Kalomoiras. [1802]." Between the two inscriptions, there is a text in eight columns and in the middle within a floral frame there are the initials of the engraver "AB" [Antonio Bortoli].
• Princeton copy 1 Inscription in ink on the reverse reads: "offerte par l' igoumene Kikkou à Vassos & Sophia 1963."

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 1 Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.

OCLC

1365098532

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