Asinou
Subtitle: the architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus
By: edited by Annemarie Weyl Carr and Andreas Nicolaïdès ; with contributions by Annemarie Weyl Carr ... [et al.].
Series: Dumbarton Oaks studies -- 43
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780884023494
Subjects: Panayia Phorviotissa (Church : Asinou, Cyprus); Byzantine Architecture; Antiquities; Byzantine Mural painting and decoration
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Fortunes and misfortunes of a small Byzantine foundation / Gilles Grivaud; title: The architecture of the Panagia Phorbiotissa / Athanasios Papageorgiou; title: The metrical inscriptions in the murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa / Nancy Patterson Sevcenko; title: The murals of the narthex : the paintings of the twelfth century date and iconography / Andreas Nicolaides; title: The murals of the narthex : the paintings of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti; title: The murals of the Bema and Naos : the paintings of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Annemarie Weyl Carr; title: The murals of Panagia Phorbiotissa : a technical examination / Ioanna Kakoulli, Michael Schilling, and Joy Mazurek.