Prikaz Korčule na ikoni iz Bizantskog muzeja u Ateni

Abstract

A seventeenth-century two-sided icon of the Hodegetria Virgin in the Early Christian and Byzantine Museum at Athens features the town of Korčula, identified as such through the Greek inscription, and a neighbouring shipwreck scene. The icon is also provided with an inscription which makes it clear this was an ex-voto image painted by Ioannis Ardavanis of Cephalonia, the island in the Ionian Sea.

Keywords

• icon of the Virgin and Child
• Early Christian and Byzantine Museum in Athens
• Korčula
• ex-voto painting