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Title

Asinou across time : studies in the architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus / edited by Annemarie Weyl Carr and Andreas Nicolaïdès ; with contributions by Annemarie Weyl Carr, Gilles Grivaud, Ioanna Kakoulli, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Andreas Nicolaïdès, Athanasios Papageorgiou, Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, and David Winfield.

Publication

Washington, D.C : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry
• Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson.
• Nicolaïdès, Andreas.
• Winfield, David.
• Kalopissi-Verti, Sophia.
• Carr, Annemarie Weyl.
• Carr, Annemarie Weyl
• Dumbarton Oaks.

Description

xii, 431 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

The church of Asinou is among the most famous in Cyprus. Built around 1100, the edifice, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is decorated with accretions of images, from the famous fresco cycle executed shortly after initial construction to those made in the early seventeenth century. During this period the church served the adjacent monastery of the Mother of God ton Phorbion ("of the vetches"), and was subject to Byzantine, Lusignan (1191-1474), Venetian (1474-1570), and Ottoman rule. This monograph is the first on one of Cyprus's major diachronically painted churches. Written by an international team of renowned scholars, the book sets the accumulating phases of Asinou's art and architecture in the context of the changing fortunes of the valley, of Cyprus, and of the eastern Mediterranean. Chapters include the first continuous history of the church and its immediate setting; a thorough analysis of its architecture; editions, translations, and commentary on the poetic inscriptions; art-historical studies of the post-1105/6 images in the narthex and nave; a detailed comparative analysis of the physical and chemical properties of the frescoes; and a diachronic table of paleographical forms.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks studies ; 43

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks studies ; 43.

Alternative Title

• Studies in the architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus
• Architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus

Subject

• Panayia Phorviotissa (Church : Asinou, Cyprus)
• Architecture, Byzantine > Cyprus > Asinou
• Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine > Cyprus > Asinou
• Asinou (Cyprus) > Antiquities

Note

• "The church of Asinou on the island of Cyprus is among the most widely known monuments of Byzantine mural painting. Built around 1100 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the edifice is decorated with accretions of images, from the famous fresco cycle executed shortly after initial construction to those made in the early seventeenth century. During this period the church served the adjacent monastery of the Mother of God ton Phorbion ("of the vetches"), and was subject successively to Byzantine, Lusignan (1191-1474), Venetian (1474-1570), and Ottoman rule. This monograph is the most comprehensive analysis to date of one of Cyprus's major diachronically painted churches. Written by an international team of renowned scholars, the book sets the accumulating phases of Asinou's art and architecture in the context of the changing fortunes of the valley, of Cyprus, and of the eastern Mediterranean. Chapters include the first continuous history of the church and its immediate setting; a thorough analysis of its architecture; editions, translations, and commentary on the poetic inscriptions; iconographic and art-historical studies of the post-1105/6 images in the sanctuary, nave, and narthex; a detailed comparative analysis of the physical and chemical properties of the frescoes; and a diachronic table of paleographical forms"--Book jacket.
• Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Dumbarton Oaks sponsored a number of major fieldwork and restoration projects on Cyprus. The last such project to have needed a major scholarly publication is Asinou, so this hefty monograph brings closure to that era.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Acknowledgments / Annemarie Weyl Carr and Andreas Nicolaïdès -- Introduction / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Fortunes and misfortunes of a small Byzantine foundation / Gilles Grivaud ; translated by Charles Dibble -- The architecture of the Panagia Phorbiotissa / Athanasios Papageorgiou -- The metrical inscriptions in the murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa / Nancy Patterson Ševčenko -- The murals of the narthex : the paintings of the twelfth century: Date and iconography / Andreas Nicolaides ; The mural of St. George : technique and conservation / David Winfield --The murals of the narthex : the paintings of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti -- The murals of the Bema and the Naos : the paintings of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- The murals of Panagia Phorbiotissa : a technical examination / Ioanna Kakoulli, Michael Schilling, and Joy Mazurek -- Conclusion / Annemarie Weyl Carr -- Appendix: Inventory of paleographic forms in the thirteenth and fourteenth-century murals / Annemarie Weyl Carr and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti.

ISBN

• 9780884023494 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0884023494 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012021970

OCLC

• 792886518
• SCSB-12635156

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library