Museum director
Bertrand Davezac
fl. 1983–1991
Museum director, active 1983–1991. Worked with Annemarie Weyl Carr and Dominique de Menil; wrote with Laurence J. Morocco.
Life and work
- June 1983Told of a rumour that a major Byzantine work was surfacing on the market, went to London to ask Yanni Petsopoulos, who passed him two photographs of the Lysi murals; he then showed them to Dominique de Menil in Paris.
LondonCarr & Morrocco 1991
- June 1983With de Menil, her assistant Elsian Cozens, Walter Hopps and Petsopoulos met two Turkish men in Munich; the 'collector' was Aydin Dikman, who claimed the murals were legally taken from Turkey. They were shown the cut plaster segments in a rented flat; the Menil connection was not disclosed.
MunichCarr & Morrocco 1991
- 1991Wrote the Introduction to Carr and Morocco, A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered (Lysi murals), and engaged Annemarie Weyl Carr for the text.
Connections
4 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Employed by Dominique de Menil1983
Scholarship
- Wrote with Annemarie Weyl Carr1991
- Wrote with Laurence J. Morocco1991
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Dominique de Menil1983–1991
- Worked with Yanni Petsopoulos1983
- Worked with Annemarie Weyl Carr1984–1991
- Worked with Laurence J. Morocco1991
Sources
- 1.Annemarie Weyl Carr, Laurence J. Morrocco (1991). A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus. Austin, University of Texas Press, with the Menil Foundation.