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Description: Saint Thekla with Wild Beasts and Angels

TitleSaint Thekla with Wild Beasts and Angels

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureByzantine

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date400–500AD

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsLimestone

Dimensionsdiam. 64.8 cm

LocationNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/19015/saint-thecla-with-wild-beasts-and-angels

Accession number48-10

SubjectsWomen saints in artChristian women saints--CultSculpture, Byzantine

StatusFound in Egypt

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Part I: Late Antiquity (250–500 CE)

Carolyn L. Connor

Women of Byzantium

Situated in a time of fundamental change, Thekla’s story characterizes a shift away from the old norms of antiquity...

Author

Carolyn L. Connor

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-12

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00178.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19099&redirecttoanchor=41935

Chapter subject tags:Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500Monastic and religious life of women--History--Early church, ca. 30-600Women saints in artByzantine Empire--Civilization--To 527Arts, Byzantine

Public Devotion

Bissera V. Pentcheva

Byzantine Women and Their World

Although recent generations have perceived Mary as a delicate and tender Virgin, Byzantines saw her as a woman of power...

Author

Bissera V. Pentcheva

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.113-137

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00029.013

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18204&redirecttoanchor=41935

Chapter subject tags:Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--ArtWomen art patronsIcons--CultRitualWomen--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500

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