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Restorer / conservator · Scholar

David Winfield

fl. 1965–2003 · United Kingdom

Conservator who directed Dumbarton Oaks's cleaning of Byzantine wall paintings in Cypriot churches at Asinou, Lagoudera and Monagri from 1965 and later co-published the Lagoudera paintings.

Biography

David Winfield directed the Dumbarton Oaks conservation of medieval church paintings in Cyprus from 1965, work done under the Department of Antiquities' permission on painted churches that stayed in place. At Asinou, with Ernest Hawkins, he cleaned the frescoes of Panayia Phorviotissa in April and November 1965 with funds from Harvard's administrative committee1. Hawkins and Winfield led the third and last campaign there in 1967, which showed the paintings of 1106 to resemble those of Ayios Chrysostomos and Trikomo2.

In April 1968 the Dumbarton Oaks team under his direction began on the paintings of Panayia tou Arakou at Lagoudera, a church dated by inscription to 11923. Work continued through 1969, when the twelve prophets in the drum were finished, and into 1970 and 19724,7,8. From August 1969, at the Department's request, he also directed urgent re-fixing of the vault paintings of a church at Monagri in the Limassol district4.

He published Asinou, A Guide in 196911, a first preliminary report on Lagoudera in Dumbarton Oaks Papers12 and a report on Monagri, Lagoudera and Hagios Neophytos13. With June Winfield, who analysed the images and made the drawings, he published The Church of the Panaghia tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus in 20039,14. His dates of birth and death are not recorded.

Life and work

  1. 1965
    With Ernest Hawkins carried out conservation and cleaning of the frescoes of Panayia Phorviotissa, Asinou, in April and November, financed by the Harvard administrative committee; the Dumbarton Oaks 'Centre'.

    AsinouKarageorghis 1966

  2. 1967
    Hawkins and Winfield led the third and last Dumbarton Oaks campaign at Asinou; the cleaning showed the 1106 paintings (gift of Nikephoros Magistros) to be of fine quality and closely resembling those of Ayios Chrysostomos, then being treated by Dumbarton Oaks technicians, and of Panayia, Trikomo, being cleaned by the Department of Antiquities.

    AsinouKarageorghis 1968Nicolaou 1968, p. 11

  3. 1968
    Directed the start of the Dumbarton Oaks cleaning and conservation of the wall-paintings of Panayia tou Arakou, Lagoudera (April 1968); reported the 1192 inscription above the north entrance and that the apse paintings are by a different hand.

    LagouderaKarageorghis 1969Nicolaou 1970, p. 8

  4. 1969
    Continued Lagoudera all year (twelve prophets in the dome drum finished in autumn); from August 1969 also directed Dumbarton Oaks work at Monagri, Limassol district, where at the Department of Antiquities' request urgent repairs were made to the vault paintings of the church of St George (BCH) / Panayia Amasgou (AR).

    Lagoudera; MonagriKarageorghis 1970Nicolaou 1976, p. 69

  5. 1969–1971
    Published preliminary reports: 'The Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera: First Preliminary Report, 1968' (Dumbarton Oaks Papers 23-24, 1969-70, 377-80) and 'Reports on Work at Monagri, Lagoudera, Hagios Neophytos, Cyprus' (DOP 25, 1971, 259-64); guide 'Asinou, A Guide' (Nicosia, 1969).
  6. 1970–1972
    Dumbarton Oaks expedition under Winfield continued cleaning and restoration at Lagoudera (Presentation, Koimesis, Annunciation etc., 1970); Lagoudera listed again for 1972.

    LagouderaNicolaou 1972, p. 10Nicolaou 1976, p. 67

  7. 2003
    With June Winfield published The Church of the Panaghia tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus: The Paintings and Their Painterly Significance (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 37). The reviewer says David Winfield oversaw the conservation 1968-73 under Dumbarton Oaks and June Winfield, who worked with him, analysed the images and made drawings.

    Washington, DCCarr 2005, p. 1Stewart et al. 2014, p. 276

Connections

3 people
June WinfieldAthanasios PapageorghiouErnest HawkinsDavid Winfield
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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1966). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1965”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 90.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1968). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1967”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 92.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1969). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1968”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 93.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1970). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1969”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 94.
  5. 5.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1968). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1967”. American Journal of Archaeology 72, 369-380.
  6. 6.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1970). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1968”. American Journal of Archaeology 74, 71-78.
  7. 7.Kyriakos Nicolaou (1972). “Archaeological News from Cyprus, 1970”. American Journal of Archaeology 76, 311-320.
  8. 8.K. Nicolaou (1976). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1969-76”. Archaeological Reports 22.
  9. 9.Annemarie Weyl Carr (2005). “Review of David Winfield and June Winfield, The Church of the Panaghia tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus”. Speculum. Online
  10. 10.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.
  11. 11.D. Winfield (1969). Asinou, A Guide. Nicosia.
  12. 12.D. C. Winfield (1969). “The Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Lagoudera: First Preliminary Report, 1968”. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 23-24, 377-380.
  13. 13.D. C. Winfield (1971). “Reports on Work at Monagri, Lagoudera, Hagios Neophytos, Cyprus”. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 25, 259-264.
  14. 14.D. Winfield, J. Winfield (2003). The Church of the Panaghia tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus: The Paintings and Their Painterly Significance. Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.