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Church

Church of Panagia Phaneromeni, Nicosia

Nicosia, Cyprus

Church in Nicosia; part of Church of Cyprus. 1 person in the register connected with it.

History

  1. 1936
    112 icons were collected in three rooms of the church; they were studied by the Church Committee and G. Soteriou, who prepared a plan for display in a Byzantine museum. The icons were treated by the artist-conservator Frangoullides, a treatment that the source says later proved damaging, with many icons destroyed.

    NicosiaGeorgios M. SoteriouFrangoullidesRasiefskyStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 90Stylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 225 n. 28

  2. 1978
    The icon collection became the nucleus of the Byzantine Museum founded in 1978; the Virgin Orans/Blachernitissa icon found among the Phaneromeni icons is exhibited there today.

    NicosiaStewart et al. 2014

People

1 person

Staff and members · 1

Objects

  • Icon of the Virgin Orans with Christ medallion (Blachernitissa type), encaustic according to Athanasios Papageorghiou

    from Church of Panagia PhaneromeniStewart et al. 2014

Sources

  1. 1.T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Bounia (2016). The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus.
  2. 2.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.