NOTES

This is just a quick “housekeeping” posting.

Some of you are perhaps not aware that now and then I will add new information or make slight changes to older postings. For example, today I added a bit more information to the “Mary and Silence” article after I received helpful information from an Italian reader about a likely early “model” for that modern icon:

MARY AND SILENCE

I also added a little more text to the posting on St. Kyriaki — “St. Sunday” — because I came across a very interesting fresco showing her with the other days of the week personified:

SAINT SUNDAY

I like to add to already existing articles any additional useful information that turns up, so an icon you may have read about here years ago may now have more details added — you never know.

Inexplicably, more people keep subscribing to this site.  Well, it is entirely free, and reading here can keep one away from TV commercials for hours on end, and it is a lot cheaper than going on a date, so why not? 

And so that I don’t post this without something new, here is a Greek icon from the 18th-early 19th century.  As you can see, it is very “western” influenced, and it includes the “Rescued Boy” motif popular in Greek icons of George.  You will find more about that here:

RECYCLED BOYS

At the top is George saving the Princess from the dragon. At lower left George is given a cup of poison prepared by a sorcerer, but George makes the sign of the cross on it, and drinks it without harm. At center is Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena. And at right is the martyrdom of George.

(Courtesy of Jacksonsauction.com)