Зборник радова Византолошког института LVII, 2020. Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta LVII, 2020. UDC: 7.041:27-36-526.2(497)“15“ https://doi.org/10.2298/ZRVI2057143Z MILOŠ ŽIVKOVIĆ Institute for Byzantine Studies, SASA, Belgrade
[email protected] DEPICTIONS OF ST. MARK OF EPHESUS IN POST-BYZANTINE ART The paper discusses the visual representations of St. Mark of Ephesus, under-re- searched in previous scholarship, which have survived in several monuments of post-Byzan- tine wall painting in the Balkans. These depictions are analyzed as visual testimonies of the veneration of Mark of Ephesus in the period under consideration, i.e. as important indicators of the presence, continuity and dissemination of his cult a long time before his official can- onization in the 18th century. The paper also offers an overview of the different iconographic versions of the images of St. Mark of Ephesus. Finally, it examines the possible reasons for the emergence of images representing this famed anti-Unionist metropolitan in the discussed monuments. In this context, the images of Mark of Ephesus are considered through the prism of their placement in a given iconographic program; wherever possible, the role of the ktetor and artist in their creation is examined. Keywords: St. Mark of Ephesus, Council/Union of Florence, iconography, post-Byzan- tine art, fresco/wall painting, 16th century One of the most striking figures in the Byzantine intellectual, ecclesiastical and even socio-political landscape in the fateful decades leading up to the fall of Constan- tinople was the theologian Manuel Eugenikos (c. 1392–1445, i.e.