Saint Eugenia Outside-Inside-Outside Rome: An Iconographic Continuity?

This essay deals with the iconography of Saint Eugenia demonstrating both the continuity and the development of her visual characteristics as a martyr, with special emphasis on the area of Rome, Italy. Her cult contributed to the promotion and multiplication of her imagery in Rome and northern Italy...

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Autor: Znorovszky, Andrea-Bianka
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/469281
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.22618/TP.HAA.20193
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469281
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Saint Eugenia of Rome
Cross-dressing
Iconography
Martyrdom
Frescoes
Relics
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Sumario:This essay deals with the iconography of Saint Eugenia demonstrating both the continuity and the development of her visual characteristics as a martyr, with special emphasis on the area of Rome, Italy. Her cult contributed to the promotion and multiplication of her imagery in Rome and northern Italy. Thus, Eugenia’s iconography from Ravenna becomes a starting point for the reconstruction of her early sixth-seventh-century depictions in Rome. This research concludes that although this holy woman belongs to the group of cross-dressed saints, Saint Eugenia is (visually and textually) constructed as a woman due to her positioning into groups of female saints.