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Restorer / conservator · Scholar

Stavros Mihalarias

fl. 1980–1990

Restorer, active 1980–1990. Worked at London. Wrote with Robin Cormack.

Life and work

  1. c. 1980
    Named by Savo (as reported by Hofstadter) as present in the early 1980s at a Sotheby's London meeting with Dikmen, Petsopoulos and Constantine Leventis, where Leventis tried to negotiate a purchase of the Byzantine frescoes from the church near Lysi.

    LondonHofstadter 1994

  2. 1980–1990
    In Michel van Rijn's account, as told to Hofstadter, van Rijn passed a Saint Peter icon he had had from Aydin Dikmen to the London restorer Stavros Mihalarias, who cleaned it and sold it to the British Museum for 175,000 pounds. This is van Rijn's version; Hofstadter reports it, and no confirmation was read.

    LondonHofstadter 1994

  3. 1984
    Co-authored with Robin Cormack the article 'A Crusader Painting of St. George: Maniera greca or Lingua franca?', Burlington Magazine 126, pp. 132-41 (as cited in a footnote of the Menil Lysi volume).

    Carr & Morrocco 1991, n. 20

Connections

5 people
Michel van RijnRobin CormackAydın DikmenPeg GoldbergYanni PetsopoulosStavros Mihalarias
Sales & giftsScholarshipColleagues

Sales, gifts & bequests

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Dan Hofstadter (1994). Goldberg's Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade.
  2. 2.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.
  3. 3.Robin Cormack, St. Mihalarias (1984). “A Crusader Painting of St George: 'Maniera greca' or 'Lingua franca'?”. Burlington Magazine 126, 132-141.