Image in a fresco

[Raoul Smith]

While traveling to churches and monasteries in the Balkans this past summer, I saw an image on a fresco of a headless creature such as the one below.

 

 

 

 

Does anyone know where this might have been? Or have you ever seen such a creature on an Orthodox icon or fresco?

 

Please respond offline at rsmith at museumofrussianicons.org

 

Thank you very much for any help.

 

--Raoul

 

Prof. Raoul Smith, Research Fellow

Editor, Journal of Icon Studies

Museum of Russian Icons 

203 Union Street

Clinton, MA 01510 USA

 

Phone: 978-598-5000 ext. 24

Fax: 978-598-5009

E-mail: rsmith at museumofrussianicons.org

 

The mission of the Museum of Russian Icons is to enhance relations between Russia and the United States through the medium of art, especially Russian icons. Миссия Музея Русских Икон состоит в укреплении отношений между Россией и США через посредство искусства, особенно искусства русских икон.

 

 


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