Session1612
TitleSalvaging Crete: Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos
Date/TimeThursday 7 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
 
SponsorMary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture
 
OrganiserNaomi Ruth Pitamber, School of Art & Design, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
 
Moderator/ChairJustine M. Andrews, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico
 
Paper 1612-a Tracing Rural Lifeways: Sacred Spaces and Their Environments at the Centre and Periphery of Cretan Villages
(Language: English)
Naomi Ruth Pitamber, School of Art & Design, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Index Terms: Archaeology - Sites; Architecture - Religious; Byzantine Studies; Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 1612-b A Byzantine Artist, Named and Known: The Painter Ioannis Pagomenos on the Cusp of Early Modernity
(Language: English)
Cristina Stancioiu, Department of Art & Art History, College of William & Mary, Virginia
Index Terms: Art History - General; Art History - Painting; Byzantine Studies; Local History
Paper 1612-c Byzantine Heritage Transcending Borders: Alliances and Ethics for the Cosmopolitan Management of the Remains of the Past
(Language: English)
Helen Human, College of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
Index Terms: Anthropology; Archaeology - Sites; Byzantine Studies; Local History
 
AbstractThe Salvaging Crete Project (https://sites.wustl.edu/salvagingcrete/) documents eight 14th-century Byzantine chapels attributed to Ioannis Pagomenos. This interdisciplinary panel considers the ways these sites challenge our thinking about borders in time and space. Taking up the dichotomies of local-global, centre-periphery, and medieval-modern, these papers explore how the chapels enhance our understanding of the complex transition from the medieval to modern period in the Mediterranean; how they provide an unparalleled vantage into rural life at the core and margins; and how they demonstrate the alliances crosscutting global, national, and local categories to preserve heritage at risk.