Programme
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Welcome and Introductions
- 09:00-09:30
- Aspasia Dina:
(Director of the 7th Ephorate, Larissa)
- Introduction: Relief Icons from Thessaly
- Yannis Varalis:
(Lecturer, University of Thessaly)
- Introduction: Evaluation of Modern Scholarship
First Session: Relief Icons on Ivory and Steatite
- 09:30-10:30
- Ioli Kalavrezou:
(Professor, Harvard University)
- Looking Anew. Byzantine Ivories Reconsidered
- Aspasia Dina:
(Director of the 7th Ephorate, Larissa)
- Ivory and Bone Plaques from Nea Anchialos
- Dimitrios Liakos:
(Archaeologist, 10th Ephorate, Thessaloniki)
- Steatite Icon with the Deposition from the Iviron Monastery, Mt Athos
- Discussion
- 11:00-11:30
- Break
Second Session: Relief Icons on Metal, Precious Stones and Wood
- 11:30-13:30
- Katia Loverdou-Tsigarida:
(Archaeologist, Thessaloniki)
- Relief Icons with Busts on Metal Icon Revetments from the Vatopedi Monastery
- Brigitte Pitarakis:
(CNRS-Paris, Paris)
- Precious Objects and Mass-Production: Aspects of Popular Devotion in Palaiologan Constantinople
- Nicolas Siomkos:
(Archaeologist, 10th Ephorate, Thessaloniki)
- Observations on Byzantine Relief Icons Made of Wood
- Euthymios Tsigaridas:
(Professor Emeritus, University of Thessaloniki)
- Relief Icons from Kastoria
- Discussion
- 14:00-15:30
- Lunch
Third Session: Relief Icons on Stone
- 17:30-21:00
- Helen Papavassileiou:
(Archaeologist, 4th Ephorate, Rhodes)
- Relief Icon with the Deesis from the Church of St George (Chourmali), Rhodes
- Eugenia Chalkia:
(Director of the 26th Ephorate, Kalamata)
- Relief Icon of St Marina at the Museum of Messenia
- Vassiliki Vemi:
(Ass. Professor, University of Thessaly)
- Byzantine and Frankish Reliefs at St Paraskevi, Chalkis (Negroponte)
- Barbara Papadopoulou:
(Director of the 8th Ephorate, Yannina)
- Marble Icons from the Despotate of Epirus
- Athanassios Semoglou:
(Ass. Professor, University of Thessaloniki)
- Observations on the Decoration of the "Leontios΄ Relief" from the Church of the Episkopi, Ano Volos
- George Velenis:
(Professor, University of Thessaloniki)
- Marble Icon from Serres
- Yannis Varalis:
(Lecturer, University of Thessaly)
- A Byzantine Relief from the Oecumenical Patriarchate, Constantinople, and its Relationship with the Icon of the Virgin Oxeia Episkepsis
- Simon Davies:
(Lincoln College, London)
- The Fountain-Icon of the Virgin Orans in Berlin and the Peribleptos Monastery at Constantinople
- Discussion
- General Conclusions:
Maria Vassilaki, Robin Cormack
- 21:30
- Dinner
Sunday, June 14, 2009
- 09:00
- Departure from the Sea Front Complex, Entrance at Iasonos Str., to:
A. The Church of the Presentation of the Virgin, Ano Volos
- 10:00-11:00
- Visit and Discussion on the Relief Icons
- 11:30
- Departure from Ano Volos to:
Β. The Church of the Virgin Oxeia Episkepsis, Makrinitsa
- 12:00-13:00
- Visit and Discussion on the Relief Icon
- 13:30
- Lunch at Makrinitsa
- 15:00
- Return to Volos
