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The cycle of the Akathistos Hymnos from the destroyed church of the Panayia at Delphi

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The detached wall-paintings nos BM 2417, BM 2418, BM 2410, BM 2413 and BM 2419, displayed in the Byzantine Museum of Athens, depict stanzas E, Z and H, and parts of stanza Ψ of the Akathistos Hymnos. They come from the church of the Panayia at Delphi, which stood on the site of the ancient gymnasium. Two inscriptions, preserved in copies made by G. Colin before the destruction of the church, inform us that it was built in 1743, while the wall-paintings were executed in 1751.The wall-paintings from Delphi are related to ensembles from the Peloponnese (the Panayia at Sophiko, the Pantanassa at Mystras, and the monastery of Voulkanou), with which they share some distinctive iconographie features, such as the floor in stanza E, the agitatedstance of Joseph in stanza H, and the use of the subject of the Adoration of the Magi to illustrate stanza H. The Delphi painter continued the traditional style of Post-Byzantine art. His work is associated with the attempt to revive Post-Byzantine art through elements drawn from Cretan painting, which may be noted in the first half of the 18th c. His preference for warm, bright colours corresponds with the general turn at this period to ‘folk’ elements. The foreign influences on his work, in terms both of style and of iconography, are indirect, and derive from 17th and 18th c. paintings. The main features of his work are the austerity reflected in his choices and the skill evident in the transfer of his models. A certain stylisation and dryness betray the fact that these are the works of an epigone.

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