on the beginnings of the constantinopolitan school of embroidery
;Papastavrou Elena;Filiou Daphni
petroleum science2015Vol. 2015pp. 161-176
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elena2015zografon
Abstract
This paper examines Greek-Orthodox ecclesiastical embroidery in Ottoman
Constantinople after 1453 until the emergence of the Constantinopolitan
School of embroidery. We are well informed about the artistic production that
flourished between the last decades of the seventeenth century and
midnineteenth century via preserved artifacts and inscriptions bearing the
embroiderers’ signature. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the production
between the fall of Byzantium and the last decades of the seventeenth century
is lacking. In this paper, our aim is to evaluate whether the Byzantine
artistic tradition continued to live in the Greek Constantinopolitan
production. The iconographical and technical analysis of different artifacts
will give the answer to this question revealing at the same time the
foundation basis of the embroidery of that School.