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Gold-Embroidered Ornaments – Introduction Maria Theocharis 3 November 2011 In 1974, in a publication on the gold-embroidered ornaments or vestments of the Holy Mountain, we concluded in our introduction: “There always remains the question of a systematic study of these votiv...
The engravings Ioannis E. Tavlakis 3 November 2011 Side by side with the great paintings and other works of art with which the Monastery of Vatopaidi abounds are also the more ‘humble’ works of engraving. These are far from insignificant in number and...
The Contribution of Archimandrite Dionysios and Other Works of the 19th century 3 November 2011 Also from Ainos was the archimandrite and exarch of the Monastery in Jassy Dionysios, who was responsible for the radical ‘restocking’ of the sacristy after the catastrophic consequences of the uprisi...
Works from Foreign Workshops 14th-16th century Anna Ballian 3 November 2011 A separate category of objects is made up of a very few - but important - works of Western or Eastern art, representing goldsmiths of renown or workshops of repute. Made out of material rare for the p...
St. Philothei of Athens 1522-1589 2 November 2011 St. Philothei lived in the Turkish-occupied, sixteenth-century Athens. Her spiritual and social work was groundbreaking, especially for a woman of that era. It was accomplished within the Church and d...
Vatopaidi and the Greek Cultural Tradition: The contribution of the Athonite Academy Paschalis M. Kitromilidis 1 November 2011 The 18th and 19th centuries could be regarded as ‘centuries of greatness’ in the history of the Monastery of Vatopaidi. This was a time at which the Monastery played the role of leader at many levels ...
The Zenith of Modern Times (1830-20th century) Kriton Chrysochoidis 1 November 2011 After the departure of the Turks from the Holy Mountain in 1830, an impressive revival of the Monastery began afresh. This was to last for about a century. The metochia in Chalcidice began to function...
Karyes Monk Chariton of Karoulia 31 October 2011 Karyes is the capital of Mount Athos. The community already existed at the beginning of the 10th century, then known as Messi (Middle). Here was the seat of the Protos, or administrative head of Mount...
Byzantine Vatopaidi: a monastery of the high Aristocracy Nikolaos Oikonomidis 31 October 2011 The earliest evidence for the existence of a significant number of monks on the Holy Mountain comes from the middle of the 9th century. To begin with there were solitaries who lived in remote areas of...
The Wall-Paintings of the Chapel of St Demetrius Nikolaos Zias 29 October 2011 The Chapel of St Demetrius on the north side of the narthex of the katholikon, which is, according to tradition1, linked with the name of Placidia, daughter of Theodosius the Great, is a cruciform chu...
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