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		<title>Virgin Blachernitissa at Sinai: A Thirteenth-Century Icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Virgin Blachernitissa at Sinai, preserved at the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, presents the Mother of God half-length and strictly frontal, her arms raised in the ancient orans gesture. Before her breast appears Christ Emmanuel within a large circular medallion, while two archangels occupy the upper corners of the gold ground. Monumental in conception despite its relatively contained dimensions, the panel measures 99.2 × 67 cm. Published catalogues describe its technique as tempera and gold on wood with canvas [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Gregory the Theologian at Ypapanti Monastery, Meteora</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Late Byzantine art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Gregory the Theologian]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Saint Gregory the Theologian fresco belongs to the sanctuary decoration of the katholikon of Ypapanti Monastery at Meteora, painted in 1366/67. Gregory of Nazianzus appears as a holy hierarch in the lower part of the sanctuary programme, his body turned towards the interior of the apse and an open inscribed scroll rising beside him. Divided around the halo, the identifying inscription reads Ὁ ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Θεολόγος. His episcopal vestments, marked by large red and dark crosses, occupy much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ Pantokrator Icon by Konstantinos the Hieromonk, 1694</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilded Panel Icons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Llëngë]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Museum of Medieval Art Korçë]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orthodox iconography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-Byzantine painting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christ Pantokrator icon painted by Konstantinos the Hieromonk in 1694 is dominated by gold. It covers the background, spreads across the throne and its textiles, enters the painted garments, and surrounds the frontal figure of Christ with a densely worked ornamental field. Measuring 97 × 63.8 × 6 cm, the panel came from the Monastery of the Virgin at Llëngë, near Pogradec, and is preserved in the National Museum of Medieval Art in Korçë under inventory number 7488. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ the Great High Priest: A Rare 1675 Icon from Kastoria</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[archpriestly vestments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ the Great High Priest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donor icon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palaiologan iconography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-Byzantine icon painting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A portable panel measuring 92 × 52 × 3 centimetres preserves a seventeenth-century representation of Christ the Great High Priest, enthroned in full archpriestly vestments and painted in 1675 for the templon of the church of Saint Athanasios of Mouzaki in Kastoria. The icon formed a pair with an enthroned image of Saint Athanasios, both associated with the same liturgical furnishing and the donor Konstantinos Maimbalis, whose dedicatory inscription appears near the lower edge of the panel. Executed long after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Annunciation Sanctuary Door from Blashtojne at Lake Prespa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annunciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kastoria Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Prespa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Late Byzantine art]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Annunciation sanctuary door from the cave church of the Virgin at Blashtojne, near Lake Prespa, is a fifteenth-century work formed from two tall, arched wooden leaves. Archangel Gabriel occupies the left leaf and the Theotokos the right. The pair is preserved in the National Museum of Medieval Art, Korçë, under inventory numbers KO 2281 and KO 2282. The left panel measures 118.2 × 39.4 × 4 cm; the narrower right panel, 118.5 × 32 × 3 cm. The work [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Macarius of Kalyazin Icon: A Seventeenth-Century Russian Panel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holy Trinity iconography]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Saint Macarius of Kalyazin icon, dating from the seventeenth century and associated with the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Kashin, presents the Russian monastic founder in a composition centred upon prayer and visionary encounter. Macarius stands at full length on the right of the pictorial field, while above and opposite him the Holy Trinity appears in the form of three angels gathered around a table. Between the two parts of the composition is established a pronounced hierarchy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Philotheos of Karyes: Koutloumousiou Wall Painting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[contemporary sacred art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koutloumousiou Monastery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Athos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Within the trapeza of Koutloumousiou Monastery on Mount Athos, Saint Philotheos of Karyes is represented in a contemporary wall painting belonging to a modern Athonite decorative programme that preserves the formal discipline of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine tradition. The saint occupies the pictorial field frontally, his upper body set against an uninterrupted black ground and enclosed above by a broad gold nimbus edged with narrow white and red bands. A dark monastic head covering descends around the face and over [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drosiani Deesis: Solomon and Christ on Naxos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deesis iconography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[King Solomon in Byzantine art]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Drosiani Deesis, painted in the northern conch of the Panagia Drosiani on Naxos and generally assigned to the seventh century, preserves one of the most unusual pre-Iconoclastic formulations of the intercessory image. At the centre of the five-figure composition stands Christ, accompanied by the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and two figures in sumptuous court dress, one of whom has traditionally been identified as King Solomon. The painter is unknown. The conception, however, belongs to an artistic culture of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Theophanes the Cretan: The Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agony in the Garden icon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine Passion cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cretan School icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iviron monastery templon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Athos iconography]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Last Supper on the Iviron epistyle, as the eye travels along the same carved and gilded beam, gives way to a second Passion episode: the moment at which Christ withdraws into the garden of Gethsemane to pray before his arrest (Matthew 26:36–46). A red inscription set into the gold ground names the scene directly — ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΗ, &#8220;Prayer,&#8221; followed by the customary abbreviation for Jesus Christ — and the composition attributed to Theophanes Strelitzas Bathas, generally known in the scholarly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Theophanes Strelitzas Bathas: The Last Supper — Iviron Monastery Epistyle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A single mantle of deep red interrupts an otherwise consistent field of blue-green drapery, and it is around that interruption that the whole composition seems to organise itself. The panel belongs to a section of templon epistyle on which three scenes from the Passion cycle survive, painted in the second quarter of the sixteenth century and attributed to Theophanes Strelitzas Bathas, the Cretan monk-painter whose signed work at Meteora and on Mount Athos placed him among the most consequential figures [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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