Ο ναός του Άι Θώρη στο Απέρι Καρπάθου και ο εικονογραφικός κύκλος του Αγίου Θεοδώρου του Στρατηλάτη (μετά το 1399)
Part of : Βυζαντινά : επιστημονικόν όργανον Κέντρου Βυζαντινών Ερευνών Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου ; Vol.31, No.1, 2011, pages 147-171
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The church of St. Theodore at Aperi, Karpathos and the vita cycle of St. Theodore (C.1399)
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The now ruined church of St. Theodore at Aperi, Karpathos, preserved until recently some fragments of its painted decoration. In the church, according to stylistic analysis, the figures can be dated after the second half of the 14th century- most probably dose to the seventh or eighth decade of that century. In the narthex, which is a later addition to the main church, a few scenes had survived: the Betrayal of Judas, some fragments from the Pentecost and the Presentation of the Virgin and, on the west wall in the middle zone, four out of five scenes with episodes from the life of St. Theodore Stratelates. In the arcosolium of the south wall, next to the -now lost- figure of the donor, there was an inscription according to which Hilarion, a monk who was probably the patron of the narthex, had been interred there on 14 January 1399. The paintings of the narthex should be placed close to this date.The quality of the murals, and their comparison with contemporary monuments on Crete, places them in the wider context of the dissemination of iconographical and stylistic principles originating in Constantinople; the trend was related to the establishment of painters from Constantinople on Crete, from at least the beginning of the 14th century. Thus, those responsible for the decoration of the church and, perhaps, Hilarion himself, may have had connections with Crete. In addition to the artistic merit of the murals, the life of St. Theodore Stratelates is an iconographie unicum in the late Byzantine period; thus, this lost ensemble was of exceptional importance for the Dodecanese islands.
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