FOURFOURAS - 2007
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1835
Année de l'opération
2007
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Fourfouras
Fourfouras
Notices et opérations liées
2007
Description
Fourfouras. P. Varthalitou (28th EBA) reports on restoration from 2007 onwards at the Church of the Virgin (Figs 1-3) in a ruined monastic setting. This small church (Fig. 4) was shown to have two construction phases; architectural alterations in the early 18th century AD included the use of ‘accoustic’ pots (the vessels themselves being re-used from late in the previous century). The surviving frescoes in the east of the building date to the original construction in the last decades of the 14th century AD: one main hand and at least one assistant can be detected (Figs 5-8). A painted inscription of five lines (white on black) on the north wall records the name of Nicholas Arkoleo (Fig. 9), after whom the settlement was once named. At the west, a simple stone-built tomb yielded a bronze coin, probably a tornesello of Michael Steno (Doge 1400-1413) (Fig. 10).
Auteur de la notice
Don EVELY
Références bibliographiques
AEK 1 (2010), 556-67
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Date de création
2011-02-15 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-12-11 09:05:25
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Church of Virgin: general view.
Fig. 2/ Church of Virgin: the south facade after restoration.
Fig. 3/ Church of Virgin: the interior after restoration.
Fig. 4/ Section plan of the church.
Fig. 5/ Detail of painting: Agios Ioannis,Chrisostomos.
Fig. 6/ Detail of painting: the Baptism Scene.
Fig. 7/ Detail of painting: the Personification of the Earth with the dead.
Fig. 8/ Detail of painting: St George, the rider.
Fig. 9/ Dedicatory inscription reffered to Arkoleo.
Fig. 10/ Tornesello of Michael Steno (Doge).