1 - Alpatoff und Lasareff. Ein byzantinisches Tafelwerk aus der Comnenenepoche. Jahrbuch d. Preuss. Kunst-samml., 9, 925, p. 40.
2 - Millet. Recherches sur l'iconographie de l'Evangile. Paris x916, p. 472-473, 475
3 - See: Goldschmidt. Das Naumburger Lettnerkreuz im Kaiser-Friedrich Museum. Jahrbuch d. Preuss. Kunst-samml. I915, p. 137.
4 - From the Church of Sta. Chiara, Lucca
5 - Siren. Toskanische Maler im XIII Jahrhundert. Berlin 1922, p. 89-94.
6 - Mr. Van Marle (The development of the Italian schools of painting, Vol. I, p. 328) mentions a small panel of the school of Bonaventura Berlinghieri which he saw in a private collection. His description of the latter permits me to recognize in the Descent from the Cross now published the picture he alludes to.
7 - Sirén, op. cit., p.36
8 - Kondakoff. The Iconography of the Virgin, Vol. II, p. I85 (in Russian).
9 - Kondakoff, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 277, pass.
10 - Papadopoulos-Kerameus. The Library at Jerusalem (in Greek), I, p. 53, pass. Kondakoff. Archaeological travels in Syria and Palestine, p. 281-283; Dalton, Byzantine art and archaeology, p. 477-478; G. Millet in Michel, I, p. 247; Id. Recherches sur l'iconographie de l'Evangile. p. 141.
11 - The type mentioned is to be already found in embryo form in the encaustic icon of the Virgin of the Vth-VIth cent. (Museum of the Ecclesiastic Academy, Kiev).
12 - . Benesewic. Monumenta sinaitica archaeologica et palaographica. Fasciculus I. Petropoli 1925, pp. 28-30, pl. 19.
13 - Kondakoff ascribes it to the XIII-XIVth cent., noting in it an Italian influence. This last assertion is groundless.
14 - Millet. Recherches sur l'iconographie de l'Evangile, pp. 418-422.
15 - Ainaloff. Byzantine painting of the XIVth cent. Petrograd 1917, p. 118-119 (in Russian).
16 - Grueneisen (La piccola icona byzantina del Museo russo Alessandro III a Pietroburgo. Rassegna d'Arte, I904, facs. 4) and Wulff (Altchristliche und byzantinische Kunst, II, p. 514) give a wrong date to this Crucifixion, ascribing it to the XII-XIII cent.
17 - Written for the prince of princes Vasak-brother of king Hetum I-between 1259 and 1284.
18 - Written by the scribe Avetik in Akner, by order of the queen Keran, wife of Levon III.
19 - Alpatoff und Lasareff. Ein byzantinisches Tafelwerk aus der Comnenenepoche. Jahrbuch d. Preuss. Kunstsamml. 1925, p. 140.
20 - Cf. Menologium of Basil II in the Vatican Library, fol. i; Homilies of Jacobus Monachus in the Vatican Library, No. 1162, fol. 29a, 68b, i88b (XII century); Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 533, fol. 3b (XI century).
21 - Cf. Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 543, fol. 5ib, 87b, ii8b, 213b (XII century); Spiritual Ladder of John Climax in the Vatican Library, No. 394, fol. I3oa (XI century); Gospel in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 75, fol. 153 (XI century); Gospel in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 74, fol. I57b (XI century); Gospel in the Vatican Library, Urbin. gr. 2, fol. I67b (XII century); Gospel in the Vienna Library, Suppl. gr. 50, fol. 244b (X-XI century).
22 - This detail is repeated in the Yale Entombment.
23 - Cf. Homilies of Jacobus Monachus in the Vatican Library, No. 1162, fol. 2b, 8b, I42a (XII century); Gospel in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 74, fol. 49b (XI century).
24 - Cf. Spiritual Ladder of John Climax in the Vatican Library, No. 394, fol. i7b (XI century); Menologium of Basil II in the Vatican Library, fol. 17, Io6; Gospel in the Bibliotheque Nationale, No. 74, fol. 46b, 47a, I36b, 137b (XI century).
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