Dumbarton Oaks - Reproduction of Decorative Borders

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Reproduction of Decorative Borders

Philip Charles Compton

1945 - 1959
120.65 cm x 231.14 cm (47 1/2 in. x 91 in.)
egg tempera on canvas
BZ.2013.016

Not on view

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Description

Reproduction of wall paintings from the Kariye Camii (Chora Church), completed by the Byzantine Institute. For a finding aid of related materials, see https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/dca00003/catalog

Bibliography

N. Teteriatnikov, "The Byzantine Institute and its Role in the Conservation of the Kariye Camii," in Restoring Byzantium: the Kariye Camii in Istanbul and the Byzantine Institute Restoration, ed. H.A. Klein and R.G. Ousterhout (New York, 2004), 43-60, esp. 57, n. 60.

Acquisition History

Transferred from the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) to the Museum, January 2009.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023