Summary
This study focuses primarily on three icons from the Byzantine Museum of Kastoria that took part in the exhibition Heaven and Earth. Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections held in museums of the USA, in Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago from 2013 until 2015 and laterally with eight Byzantine icons and a Bema door from the same museum collection that where exhibited in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens during the same period under the context of mobility of objects and collections. The icons that where presented in the USA exhibition where the double-sided icon of Virgin Hodegetria and Christ in the type of the Man of Sorrows, which is dated in the last quarter of the 12th c., the icon of Prophet Elijah (1180-1120) and saint Athanasios (end of 12th – beginning of the 15th c.). The icons that were chosen to be presented to the Athenian museum by the archaeologists of the 16th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens (Angeliki Strati, Fedra Kalafati) conveniently covered the empty casing that was created by the lending of artifacts to the earlier mentioned exhibition in the USA. These were the following: The Christ Pantokrator and the Saint Stephen dated both on the 14th c., the Saint Nicholas with scenes from his life (late 14th – early 15th c.), the Dormition of the Virgin (1365-1385) and the Virgin Glylofilousa in the type of the Eleousa. Also were exhibited the doublesided icons of Virgin Pantanasa and the Descent from the Cross (early 15th c.) and Virgin Paramythia and the Man of Sorrows (15th, 16th c.), the three dimensional icon of Saint Dimitrios from the church of Agios Georgios from the district of Kastoria from the first quarter of the 14th c. and the Bema door with the Annunciation (first half of the 16th c.).
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