Milenium en Compostela; 18 voices in the Camino

[Elizabeth Boylston-Morris]

Hello Rosina,
Although I am an Episcopalian and not a Catholic I, too, was charmed by
St.Catherine's Sinaitic icon of The Presentation in the Temple.
The figure holding the infant Christ, by the way,  is St. Symeon, and between
him and the Virgin there appear symbolically closed Sanctuary doors and an
altar with ciborium.
The inscriptions at the  bottom say that the icon was painted by Damaskinos
in 1571, but since the icon is not characteristic of Damaskinos' work  there is
some doubt about its authorship.
In 1988 Maria Constantodauke-Kitromelidou wrote an extensive dissertation on
Post-Bizantine icons which the  Athens University has made available.  She
writes that the luminosity of the faces in the Presentation icon are more
reminiscent of figures by Theophanes,  and believes that he may have been the actual
author.  She also points out inconsistencies between the lettering of the
inscriptions on the front of the icon and the Greek Cross and letters on its back.
Commencing on volume II, page 457, she writes about the Presentation icon for
which she expresses a deep emotional admiration.
Regards,
Liz
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