A Crusader Icon with two martyrs of Sebaste - Eugenios and Auxentios
A Crusader Icon with two martyrs of Sebaste - Eugenios and Auxentios
Place of OriginAcre, Crusader Kingdom, Kingdom of Jerusalem
Dateabout 1260-1291
DimensionsOverall: 18 7/8 × 14 3/4 × 1 3/16 in. (48 × 37.5 × 3 cm)
Mediumtempera and oil on walnut panel
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineGiven in honor of Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, and Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange
Object number
2025.132
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 19
DescriptionThe panel depicts two male saints, with short beards and stern
expressions. The older saint on the left is shown with grey hair, while
the younger saint on the right is shown with dark brown hair.
Published Referencesc.f. Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre: 1187–1291 (Cambridge, 2005), 531–59
c.f. David Jacoby, “Christian Pilgrimage to Sinai until the Late Fifteenth Century.” In Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins, 79-93.
c.f. Rebecca W. Corrie, ‘Sinai, Acre, Tripoli, and the “Backwash from the Levant”: Where did the Icon Painters Work?’ in in Art and Liturgy at St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, eds. Sharom Gerstel and Robern Nelson (Brepols, 2011), 415.
Exhibition HistoryLoaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973-1974Loaned to the Toledo Museum of Art, 2024
about 1500
1st century BCE - 3rd century CE
14th century
Late 18th-Early 19th century
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