About this work
Dǝmyānos writing the name of St Mary in a manuscript
Original catalogue wording
1. Dǝmyānos writing the name of St Mary in a manuscript | 2. Dǝmyānos lying down before the icon of Mary, which performs a gesture of blessing | 3. In the background, the pillar of gold, on which Mary inscribed Dǝmyānos' name is depicted
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. Dǝmyānos writing the name of St Mary in a manuscriptPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How he wrote the name of our Lady
- 022. Dǝmyānos lying down before the icon of Mary, which performs a gesture of blessingPosition recorded by PEMM: center
How our Lady announced the good news to Dəmyānos
- 033. In the background, the pillar of gold, on which Mary inscribed Dǝmyānos' name is depictedPosition recorded by PEMM: right
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 66r
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1799 (3 episode rows)