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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>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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					<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Καστοριά]]></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[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[17th century icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Trinity iconography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashin Church Art]]></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>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>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Cretan School painting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mount Athos art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-Byzantine panel painting]]></category>
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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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		<title>Theophanes the Cretan: The Washing of the Feet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[iconostasis epistyle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Attributed to Theophanes Strelitzas-Bathas, better known as Theophanes the Cretan, and dated to 1535–1545, The Washing of the Feet belongs to the painted epistyle formerly associated with the iconostasis of the katholikon of Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos. The image shown is the Washing of the Feet (John 13:1–17); the Last Supper (Matt. 26:17–30) occupies the neighbouring compartment within the same Passion sequence, followed by Christ’s Prayer on the Mount of Olives (Matt. 26:36–46). Four sections of this remarkable epistyle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Byzantine Templon Epistyle: The Great Deesis of the 12th Century</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Komnenian Art]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The surviving section of a twelfth-century Byzantine templon epistyle, now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, preserves three standing saints beneath a continuous sequence of gilded arches. Dated to the first half of the century and probably associated with a Constantinopolitan workshop, the fragment belonged to a longer painted ensemble connected with the Great Deesis. Its painter is unknown. Within the surviving section, the figures are identified as the Apostle Philip, Saint Theodore and Saint Demetrius, a sequence [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ Pantocrator Icon: A Greek Triptych Panel of the 16th Century</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[enthroned Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek icons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-Byzantine painting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christ Pantocrator icon preserved in the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen is a small Greek panel of the 16th century, measuring only 20 × 15.2 cm, yet its composition retains the scale and ceremonial authority associated with much larger representations of the enthroned Christ. Painted in egg tempera on wood, it originally formed the central section of a triptych. The lateral wings have disappeared, leaving the semicircular upper termination and the stepped profile of the panel to suggest something of its former [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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