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Athonite Paper Icons	4.7 St Panteleimon and The Skete of St Panteleimon on Mount Athos 1810 Collection of Simonopetra Monastery Engraving Dimensions of copperplate 39.5 x 30 cm Engraved on Mount Athos Engraver: Theodosios, monk
	Inscription: 'Drawing of the Holy Skete of St Panteleimon of the Monastery of Koutloumousiou on Mount Athos, which commissioned the engraving'. On the border, bottom left in Slavonic: 'Engraved by the monk Theodosios, iconographer, 1810'. The engraving is divided horizontally into two zones. In the upper zone St Panteleimon is shown full-length, holding the symbols of his martyrdom and medical art: cross, forceps and medicine chest. Left and right are four scenes from his life: a. 'the Saint admonishing the king', b. 'the Saint healing a blind man', c. 'the beheading of the Saint', d. 'the Saint raising a man from the dead'. The lower zone depicts the Skete of St Panteleimon, a dependency of the Monastery of Koutloumousiou, with its kyriakon, bell tower, cemetery church and the kalyvae of the skete. Lower left, in the churchyard of the kyriakon and next to the skete's olive press, is represented a holy water rite. The monk and engraver Theodosios Rosos is known to us through seven of his works, engraved on Mount Athos in the period between 1807 and 1818. He is a painstaking engraver who renders his subjects in a folk style.
	Bibliography: Papastratou 1986, no. 476. Provatakis 1993, no. 138.
	H.I.S.
	Index of exhibits of Monastery of Simonopetra 19th century

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