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Byzantine Steatite Icon of St. George, 11th-12th Centuries.
Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy.
208. Св. Георгий
Стеатитовая иконка
Византия. XI—XII вв.
Флоренция
Национальный музей
Source: p.144, Darkevich, Svetskoe iskusstvo Vizantii: X-XIII veka, (Moscow 1975). [990MB]
Secular Art of Byzantium: X-XIII centuries.
208 St. George
Steatite icon
Byzantium. XI-XII centuries.
Florence
National Museum
Referenced as figure 89 in Arms and armour of the crusading era, 1050-1350 by Nicolle, David. 1988 edition
89 Carved (ivory?) icon of St. George, Byzantine, 11—12 Cents.
(Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy)
In most respects similar to Fig. 88, the mounted Saint wears a small lamellar cuirass with pendant lamellar skirt and upper arm protections which were to become an almost inescapable convention in later Byzantine representations of military saints and other Biblical warriors. Here, however, it may still reflect some degree of reality.