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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-gre-028. Caped Satan (possibly Abaddon/Apollyon, the "Destroyer", the "Angel of the Bottomless Pit"?) riding the bipede, caudate monster (The Beast?) and carrying Judas on his lap, surrounded by the souls of sinners drifting downstream in the River of Fire and being dragged down by the little black winged demons (the General Judgment); the primeval spirit of the sea, Thalassa, holding a galley, riding a sea monster, and surrounded by other ophiomorphic or composite creatures (sea snake, sea monster, polycephalic and tetrapteric gryphon (?), winged lion) and aquatic, semiaquatic, and marine animals (whale, seal, polar (!) bear) of the Last Judgment, some of them returning their dead; Anemoi (Four Winds: Boreas, Zephyros, Notos, Euros) blowing from each corner of the body of water (The Ocean or The Sea of Glass?); crowned Four (and Twenty?) Elders, the agent heads of a city, family, tribe, or nation and representatives of the redeemed human race. |
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Artist/Workshop: | Historical/Art Period, Date: |
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| Polychrome paint, mounted canvas (?) |
Wall painting (Nave, west (?) wall, painted decoration, detail, in situ) |
Constantine Dzumakis (?) |
Modern, 2000s (?) |
Meteora, Trikala, Thessaly, North Greece |
Agiou Stefanou (Monastery of Saint Stephen) |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Greek Expedition, 30 April - 22 May 2009). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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