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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15151-2 — Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15151-2 — Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić Index More Information Index See name of town or city for specific icons, buildings, manuscripts, etc. absent voice/silence, epigram compensating animate/lifelike image, 64, 241 for, 238–42 Anna of Hungary, 34n48 adornment. See kosmos anonymity, 268n88 Adversus Constantinum Caballinum, 339–41 Anonymous Patrician, 241 aēr-epitaphios, introduction of, 273 anonymous Russian pilgrim, 115n117 agapē, non-use of, 300 Anthologia Marciana (Venice, Biblioteca Agapetos the Deacon, Ekthesis, 324 Nazionale Marciana, Ms. Marc. gr. 524), Akathistos Hymn, illustration of, Cozia, 6n18 Wallachia, 350n64 affection, vocabulary of, 300n5, 301, 311 Akindynos, Gregory, 318–19 collection of epigrams in, 6, 16 Akropolites, Constantine Dalassenos, John Rogerios, epigram Anastasis monastery, Constantinople, dedicating dead wife’s jewelry, 177–78 testamentary Logos for, 96, 266, 284, George the firefighter, Saint, epigram, 26, 31 290, 396 golden lamp sent by Manuel I Komnenos to icon of Virgin Hodēgētria with Constantine Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem, 259–61 and Maria Akropolites, 375 on icon restoration, 156 Kosmidion, textile donated to, on cure of John the Baptist, Saint, icon, epigram for, daughter Theodora, 396–97, 399, 402 270–71 Akropolites, George, 18, 266, 396 Kamateros, Andronikos Doukas, epigram History, 116 for revetment of Virgin and Child icon, Akropolites, Melchisedek, 18–21, 23–25, 29, 345–47 47, 66 Komnenos, John, poem commemorating Alexios I Komnenos (emperor), 66, 85, 93, 130, wall painting set up by, 382–85 142, 154, 160, 182, 383 kosmos in, 141 Alexios III Angelos (emperor), 111, 385n136 Maurokatakalon, Nicholas, epigram for icon Amanteianos, Constantine, 262–64, 268, donated by, 271–72 365–66 on miraculous escape from death of Manuel Andrew of Crete, 278n109 Styppeiotes, 92–93, 166n136, 255n41 Andrew (panhypersebastos), 227–29 on portrait of Manuel I Komnenos and Andronikos II Palaiologos (emperor), 33, 47, Maria of Antioch, 322–23 73n13, 76, 180n172, 183–84, 206, 254, pothos and social/personal patronage in, 256, 272–74, 278, 310, 316, 322, 344, 322–23 349 on precious belt of Maria of Antioch, 27–28 Andronikos III Palaiologos (emperor), 33, 254 restitution, epigrams expressing gift-giving Andronikos of Rhodes, 313 as, 283 Angeloi. See specific emperors Serblias, Basil, epigram for Christ Peribleptos Angelos, Alexios Komnenos (owner or donor icon of, 375–79 of panagiarion), 58, 60–61 Skylitzes, George, epigram for icon of Saint Angelos, Constantine (sebastokratōr), 385n136 Nicholas, 345 Angelos, Senachereim (megas stratopedarchēs), on Styppeiotes image of Saint Demetrios, 33 165–67, 300 475 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15151-2 — Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić Index More Information 476 Index Anthologia Marciana (Venice, Biblioteca Choniates poem on former glory of, 337–38 Nazionale Marciana, Ms. Marc. gr. 524) (cont.) Kanellopoulos collection, Last Judgment terminology for gift-giving used in, 255n39, icon, 22 257 Metochion of the Holy Sepulcher, Ms. 351 triple lamp dedication, 96–98 (now in National Library of Greece), on veil of icon of Christ at Chalke Gate, 63n122 Constantinople, 350n62 National Archaeological Museum, gold ring, votive transaction between Gerasimos and 22–23, 31 Saint Panteleimon, 258–59, 261 Attaleiates, Michael, Diataxis, 96, 246, 252, Anthologia Planudea,32 268, 283–84, 310 Antonin (Russian archimandrite), 118n4 Atzymes, Manuel (sebastos), 90–92 Antony of Novgorod, 156n114 Atzymes, Michael (domestikos of the Eastern Apamea, Syria, relic of True Cross from, 129 themes), 33 Aphrodisias, statues in honor of Rhodopaios authōron (improvisation), 62–65 erected by citizens of, 318 autobiographical details in epigrams, 96–98 Aphthonios, Progymnasmata,89 Arbantenos, John, 85–87, 96, 99, 102–5, 140 Bačkovo, Bulgaria, monastery of the Virgin Areia, Argolid, monastic church at, 80, 82, 282 Petritzonitissa,96 Arianitissa (daughter of Theodore Sarantenos), Balsamon, Michael, 36 305 Balsamon, Theodore, 6, 172 Aristeides, Ailios, 102n91 Barberini Psalter (Ms. Vat. Barb. gr. 372), 322n85 Aristophanes, Wealth, 313 Bardas (kaisar and donor of Croce degli Aristotle, 154 Zaccaria), 161–65 Physics, 102n91 Barnabas (monk-official of Jerusalem Arkas, Dionysios, 314–16, 321 Patriarchate in Cyprus), 310–11 Arsenites, 184 Barthes, Roland, 359, 366 art of logoi, 23, 187, 242 Basil of Ankyra, 388 artists Basil the Great, Saint, in dedicatory epigrams, 71–75 funerary portrait, 340 epigrams adapted from anthologies, painters’ on seal of Basil of Thessalonike, 106 guides, and model books by, 29–31 Basil (metropolitan of Thessalonike), seal of, 106 liaison between patron and artist, poets Basil the Younger, Saint, called upon as acting as, 46–48 intercessor with Saint Onouphrios, poets, collaboration with, 39–46 171–72 Asanes, Andronikos, 255, 280, 301 Basilakes, Nikephoros, 92 Asinou, Cyprus, church of the Virgin Beaton, Roderick, 35 Phorbiōtissa, fresco of Saint George on Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte, 52, 107 horseback, 269–70 begging poets and begging poetry, 33–35, 321 Astrapas, Eutychios and Michael, 29 Bekkos, John XI (patriarch of Constantinople), Athanasios (monk commissioning epigram for 188–89 icon of Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia), 282 Belting, Hans, 273 Athanasios I (patriarch of Constantinople), Benton, John F., 107n104 183–84, 310 Bera, Typikon of monastic church of Virgin Athanasios of Alexandria, Epistola ad Kosmosōteira near, 97, 129, 156–57 Marcellinum, 89n47 Bernard, Floris, 31 Athens Berroia Benaki museum Anastasis church at, 72–75 Psalter of Barnabas, Ms. 68, 310–11 Philes, Manuel, verse inscriptions attributed Sarabares, George, icon of Virgin and to, 32n38 child with inscription of, 253n25, Bessarion, Cardinal, 380n124 296–99, 331 Bible Byzantine and Christian Museum, Virgin David’s prayer on endowment of first Akatamachētos icon, 135 Temple of Jerusalem, 283 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15151-2 — Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić Index More Information Index 477 erotic gaze in, 388 Constantine IX Monomachos (emperor), 173, Joshua, son of Nun, on Urbino textile, 67–70, 336–37 108–11, 379 Constantinople mikrodōria, scriptural precedents for, 292 Anastasis monastery, 96, 266, 396 narrative and typology, devotional identity Andrew, Saint, en tē Krisei, church of, 100–2 constructed on, 108–16 Chalke Gate Tabernacle in Old Testament, comparison of icon of Christ, encheirion for, 283, 301 churches to, 217–18 icon of Christ, veil in front of, 350n62 Birth of John the Baptist, silence of Zachariah iconoclastic carmina cancellata, 225–27 addressed on icon of, 238–40 Chalkoprateia, church of Christ Bithynia, Sakkoudion monastery, church of Antiphōnētēs, inlaid floor, 307, 310 Saint John the Theologian, 307–8 Chōra monastery Blemmydes, Nikephoros, Basilikos Andrias, Arkas, Dionysios, volume of ascetic texts 236 donated by, 314–16 Book of Ceremonies, 323 donor mosaic, 247, 386 Bryennios, John Doukas, 257 Gospel book given by princess Maria- Bucharest, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Melane Palaiologina, 32n38, 302, 315n59 Ms. 410, 63n122 letter of founder to monks of, 247 tomb of Michael Tornikes and wife, calligraphy, 188–202 32n38 Cambridge, Trinity College, Ms. O.2.36, 227 Christ Panoiktirmōn monastery, 96 carmina cancellata, 220, 224–29 Christ Pantokratōr monastery carmina figurata, 219–30 epigram in praise of monastery and its Carr, Annmarie Weyl, 156 founders, 5n16, 57–58, 275 Chalcis treasure, rings from, 32n38 fresco or wall mosaic icon of Virgin with Chalkiopouloi, cave church of Saint Andrew carmen cancellatum, 227–29 the Hermit, 27 promotion of epithet with founding of, Chambéry diptych, 42–46, 61, 202 390n161 charaktēres,51 Christ Plērophorētēs, church of Chatzikes, Athanasios, 319–20 podea and icon for, 349–50 childbirth and pregnancy, 103–5 possible connection of Anna Chomatenos, Demetrios Philanthropene with, 372 as archbishop of Ohrid, 279 Xanthopoulos, Nikephoros Kallistou, silver icon revetment of, 118–21, 124, 129, dedicatory poem for Theodore 161, 167 Palaiologos by, 94–95, 256 Choniates, Michael (author of poem on former Saint Demetrios, transfer from Thessalonike glory of Athens), 337–38 of tomb cover of, 348n55 Choniates, Niketas, on sacrilege of Isaac II, Saint Demetrios monastery, Typikon of 178–79 Michael VIII for, 96, 332–33 Chortasmenos, John, 36–37, 324 Hagia Sophia Choumnos, Nikephoros, 180–84 apse mosaic of Virgin and Child, 393 Chrysoberges, Luke (patriarch of edict of Manuel I Komnenos, 193–95, Constantinople), 227n73 201 Chrysoloras, Demetrios, 381n126 iconoclastic synod of 815, 225 Chrysoloras, Manuel, 381 pearl-weeping icon of Mother of God, Chrysorophites, John, 322–23 115n117 collections of epigrams, 6 purple aēr “stripped naked of the pearls it commemoration, 56, 262–76 once had,” 179n169 Constantine I (emperor), 49, 217n52 wood from unsalvageable icons used to Constantine V (emperor), 193 heat holy myron, 156n114 Constantine VI (emperor), 341 Holy Apostles, church of, 111n110 Constantine VII Porphyrogennētos (emperor), Kosmidion, textile presented by Constantine 241n113, 337n18 Akropolites to, 396–97, 402 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15151-2 — Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium Ivan Drpić Index More Information 478 Index Constantinople
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