BYZANTINE ICONS OF VERROIA

Translated into English by John C. Davis. Hard cover, 33X24 cm, 200 pp. (incl. 122 colour plates); net weight 1620 gr.

The city of Verroia was one of the main economical and cultural centers of the Byzantine empire in the region of the Balkans; it has guarded jealously a rich artistic heritage within its 48 surviving churches, structures which hardly impress from the outside and which failed to attract the profane eye of the antiquarians of the past. On examining a Verroian church one is left with the feeling that time has deposited its wares in layers, one on top of the other. This book presents the best portable icons and murals of the churches of Verroia.

CONTENTS:

I. An outline history of Byzantine Verroia

II. The Churches of Verroia and their icons: 1. Churches still standing, 2. Demolished churches and churches known only from written sources, 3. The templa of Verroia

III. Byzantine aesthetics and perception of the icon

IV. The art of the icons of Verroia: 1. The earliest examples, 2. Comnenian art, 3. The early 13th century, 4. The first Paleologan revival, 5. In the wake of the career of Kallierges in Verroia, 6. The second half of the 14th century: icons of universal merit, 7. The second half of the 14th century: icons from local workshops, 8. Works of the 15th and the first decades of the 16th centuries

Select bibliography - Index of icons - Plates

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