Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gerstel, Sharon E. J.

Titel

Saint Eudokia and the Imperial Household of Leo VI

Ist Teil von

• The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.), 1997-12, Vol.79 (4), p.699-707

Ort / Verlag

New York, etc: College Art Association of America

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Discovered in the church of the Virgin constructed by Constantine Lips, a high official in the court of Leo VI, the Saint Eudokia plaque is the finest inlaid marble icon to have survived from medieval Byzantium. This examination proposes a new identity for this obscure saint. The evidence suggests that Eudokia is not the exiled empress of the Early Christian period but the little-known wife of the emperor Leo VI. The representation of this empress demonstrates that in the early tenth century, the creation of Byzantine saints and the commissioning of sacred art were intimately related to affairs of the imperial household.