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Saint Christopher (depicted with the head of a dog)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Anonymous icon painter
Title
Saint Christopher (depicted with the head of a dog)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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.
Date 17th century
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium painting
Dimensions height: 67 cm (26.3 in); width: 35 cm (13.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,67U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,35U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1018775
Accession number
ΒΧΜ 01571
Place of creation Kermira, Cappadocia
Source/Photographer http://www.ebyzantinemuseum.gr/?i=bxm.en.exhibit&id=59

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current10:41, 12 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 10:41, 12 February 2017954 × 1,773 (1.59 MB)Shakko
10:04, 1 August 2005Thumbnail for version as of 10:04, 1 August 2005182 × 343 (63 KB)TaraguiTraditional eastern depiction of a dog-headed Saint Christopher: an icon from the Byzantine Museum, Athens. {{PD-art}} Category:Icons Category:Religious paintings Category:Cynocephali

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