Image File RK208-11

*Deesis from the south gallery of Hagia Sophia, late 13^th century

Kahn Madonna (National Gallery, Washington) by a Byzantine Painter working in Italy, c. 1280
*Mellon Madonna (National Gallery, Washington) by an Italian Painter working in the Byzantine style, c. 1280

Compare Duccio's Rucellai Madonna, Siena, c. 1280

Wall painting from the Church of the Ascension, Mileševa, Serbia, c. 1234-6

*Wall painting from Church of the Trinity, Sopocani, Serbia, 1260-65

Wall painting from the Church of the Virgin Peribleptos (St. Clement) Ohrid, c. 1295 by Michael, Astrapas and Eutychios

Church of the Virgin, Gracanica, Serbia, c. 1320, probably by the same painters

*Icons of St. Matthew and the Annunciation from Ohrid, related in style to wall paintings from Ohrid and Gracanica, c. 1300

Icon of St. Peter, c. 1300 Dumbarton Oaks Collection
 

**Kahrie Camii, Church of Christ of the Chora Monastery, mosaics and frescoes, c. 1310-1320
*Architecture
*Mosaics of the Kahrie Camii

Donor Portrait of Theodore Metochites
Christ Pantocrator
Virgin Hodegetria
Deesis
Narthex dome with ancestors of Christ
Annunciation to St. Anne
Birth of the Virgin
Virgin's first eight steps
Virgin receives the purple skein of wool
Enrollment of the Virgin and St. Joseph for taxation
Nativity
Journey of the Magi, Magi before Herod
Massacre of the Innocents
Flight into Egypt
Return from Egypt
Temptation of Christ
Multiplication of loaves
Marriage at Cana, Christ changes water into wine
Dormition of the Virgin (Koimesis)
St. George

*Frescoes of the Kahrie Camii

Jacob's ladder, Jacob wrestles the angel
Church father (Cyril of Alexandria) and the Virgin Elousia (Virgin of Mercy)
Virgin Elousia
Archangel
Anastasis
Last Judgment
Entry into paradise

Miniature Mosaic Icons, 14th century

The Annunciation
Virgin of Tenderness
Man of Sorrow
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
*Icons with the Twelve Major Liturgical Feasts

Manuscript of the Theological Works of the Emperor John VI Cantacuzene, portraits of the emperor, the Transfiguration 1370-1375

Emperor Manuel II and his Family, Manuscript, Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, 1403-5
 

Study Questions:

How would you characterize late Byzantine art?  Is it innovative in subject matter?  style?

Compare depictions of the Koimesis (Dormition of the Virgin) from Sopocani, Church of the Peribleptos, Ohrid, and the Karije Djami.

Compare depictions of the Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell) from Hosios Loukas, Daphni, Kurbinovo, the Karije Djami.
 

Recommended Readings: P. Underwood, The Karije Djami.