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Papers by Evi Sampanikou
Misunderstandings around Posthumanism. Lost in Translation? Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s “Metahuman Futures Manifesto” (2022)
Journal of Posthumanism
Posthumanism is still a largely debated new field of contemporary philosophy that mainly aims at ... more Posthumanism is still a largely debated new field of contemporary philosophy that mainly aims at broadening the Humanist perspective. Academics, researchers, scientists, and artists are constantly transforming and evolving theories and arguments, around the existing streams of Posthumanist thought, Critical Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Metahumanism, discussing whether they can finally integrate or follow completely different paths towards completely new directions. This paper, written for the 1st Metahuman Futures Forum (Lesvos 2022) will focus on Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s “Metahuman Futures Manifesto” (2022) mainly as an open dialogue with Critical Posthumanism.
Posthuman Studies Reader - Core readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism
The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of de... more The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts, central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies. The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington, Karen Barad, Nick Bostrom, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Jaime del Val, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Elaine Graham, Donna Haraway, Ihab Habib Hassan, N. Katherine Hayles, James Hughes, Julian Huxley, Brian Massumi, Max More, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More and Cary Wolfe. "This Reader is a perfect guide to get into bleeding-edge philosophy."Nicolás Rojas Cortés, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile "The ...
ΤΡΙΚΑΛΙΝΑ. Ετήσια Επιστημονική Περιοδική Έκδοση Φ.Ι.ΛΟ.Σ., Τόμος 21, 2001
Μοναστήρια Νήσου Ιωαννίνων. Πρακτικά Συμποσίου, Επιμέλεια: Μίλτος Γαρίδης - Αθανάσιος Παλιούρας , 1999
The article is an extended review of the recent Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's book Philosophy of Posthu... more The article is an extended review of the recent Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's book Philosophy of Posthuman Art (2022) that explores the content and the aesthetic values introduced by the author as well as his shift to Critical Posthumanism, while he also keeps the philosophical essence of his own approach to Transhumanism, the main ideas of his contribution to Metahumanism and the desire of convergence of Trans-and Posthumanism. Sorgner's insight to contemporary art surpasses the boundaries usually set by art historians and underlines the artists' worldview and the philosophical meaning of their works in the context of the several trends of Posthumanism including social and cultural views and politics. Visual arts and music are studied in parallel with the evolution of posthumanist theories and arguments, while the issues of non-dualities, technology, religion, truth, ethics, reason, leisure, the western philosophies of the past and moreover "the need to coin new terms" are the crucial points of Sorgner's discussion with the readers. The book is more than valuable for its commitment to the notion of the philosophical meaning of contemporary artworks as well as for its opening to a new understanding of Posthumanism.
Ο ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΤΡΙΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΡΧΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΝΗΣ ΒΑΡΛΑΑΜ ΣΤΑ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΑ (1637)
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 2007
Focusing on the Persepolis series (vols I, II), the well-known graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi,... more Focusing on the Persepolis series (vols I, II), the well-known graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, I attempt an
inner view to the private as political in gender-orientated autobiography. Persepolis albums concentrate major characteristics of parallel kinds of narratives as political fiction or contemporary philosophy, while at the same time they are opened
to a wide range of matters such as the social gender, identities, immigration, refugees, orientalism. Born in 1969 in Rasht,
Iran, Marjane Satrapi was only a child when fundamentalists came to powerin her country and social life changed, especially
for women. Marjane studied at the Lycee Francais in Tehran and later left for Vienna and Strasburg. Having studied Fine
Arts and illustration, she now lives and works in France. Persepolis is an illustrated report of Marjane’s life from the prerevolutionary period to adulthood, describing the shaping of a young woman’s identity between a fundamentalist East and
an orientalist West.
Science Fiction In the World of Contemporary Visual Arts: The European Science Fiction Comics Culture1
… and medical themes in science fiction, 2002
Book Chapter
Journal of Posthumanism, 2022
The paper deals with a documentary narrative of the real story of a philosophical project that ca... more The paper deals with a documentary narrative of the real story of a philosophical project that came out of a huge accident. The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union on April 26, 1986. In 1997, seven scientists involved into the accident leave Ukraine for health reasons. They settle on Gavdos, a small island south of Crete, the most distant border of Europe in the Mediterranean. They remain there for about fifteen years and initially have a major positive interaction with the local community, leading a Pythagorean School and several philosophical group meetings, public work, and constructions. During this time, they evolve a new philosophical approach to humanity, the option for immortality, based on what they call “Philosophical Evolution”, a combination of Pythagorean teaching and the ideas of Epicurus, and also specific views that can be related to critical posthumanism and transhumanism.
The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visit... more The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visitor from a passive receiver of messages to an active vehicle of knowledge and experiences.
Introduction The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition... more Introduction The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visitor from a passive receiver of messages to an active vehicle of knowledge and experiences. Multimedia applications afford places invested with synaesthetic and representational potentials that evoke intellectual and emotional involvement, “with the visual reinforcing the tactile, the physical reinforcing the intellectual”. In this way, the content is shown in an environment with narrative structure. The regulation of the flow of the experience provides interactive facilities that surpass the limits of the physical world.
Thanks to Reviewers
Andrea Abbas Peter Adey Madeleine Akrich Joseph Alter Ben Anderson Judith Aston Michael Atkinson ... more Andrea Abbas Peter Adey Madeleine Akrich Joseph Alter Ben Anderson Judith Aston Michael Atkinson Les Back Jay Baglia Olga Bailey Einat Bar-On Cohen Ruth Barcan Kirsten Bell Martha Bell Ole Bjerg Daniel Black Virginia Blum Tomas Boland Dave Boothroyd Eileen Boris Barbara Brickman Tristan Bridges Debra Budiani Ann Burlein Roger Burrows Raymond Caldwell Fiona Campbell Amanda Card Antonio Casilli Ambrogia Cereda Nigel Clark Constance Classen Patricia Clough Rebecca Coleman Verena Conley Grayson Cooke Melinda Cooper Nick Crossley Trevor Curnow Simone Davis Jakob Demant Robert Desjarlais Ignaas Devisch Kathleen Fahy
We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifyin... more We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifying cultural data related to the aesthetic judgment of comics artists. Such a classification is very important in Comics Art theory since the determination of any classes of similarities in such kind of data will provide to art-historians very fruitful information of Comics Art's evolution. To establish this, we use a categorical data set and we study it by employing three categorical data clustering algorithms. The performances of these algorithms are compared each other, while interpretations of the clustering results are also given.
Audiovisual Posthumanism, Edited by Evi D. Sampanikou, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Introduction The aim of this chapter is to record and analyse the ways in which the representatio... more Introduction
The aim of this chapter is to record and analyse the ways in which the
representation of the past has been constructed by large groups of
specialists or laymen, from Renaissance Humanism to the Posthumanist
digital present, when contemporary technological developments and
capabilities have opened new directions for archaeological research,
turning digital creators and new scientific experts into administrators of
archaeological images. We are therefore going to compare the analogic
and the three-dimensional images as archaeological tools and also as
humanistic (New Archaeology) and postmodern/posthumanistic (Post-
Processual Archaeology) media beginning from virtual archaeology.
“Virtual archaeology” is a developing scientific area using the
capabilities of computers to concentrate, catalogue, group and promote
archaeological material in a range of different ways and media for a wide
spectrum of applications. Virtual archaeology substantially rehabilitates
the geometric relationship between archaeological and architectural data
and describes in visual language the researcher’s verbal descriptions and
theories (Reilly, 1992, 147; Higgins, Main & Lang, 1996; Forte, Siliotti,
1997). The digital image, static or animated, is the final result of the
research and interpretative procedure in the theoretical framework of Post-
Processual Archaeology.
Μουσείο, Επικοινωνία και Νέες Τεχνολογίες / Museum, Communication and New Technologies, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, 2004
ΣΤ΄Διεθνές Πανιόνιο Συνέδριο (1997), 2004
A Paper from a 1997 Conference. Title in english: "Portable Icon Depicting the Decapitation of St... more A Paper from a 1997 Conference. Title in english: "Portable Icon Depicting the Decapitation of St John the Baptist (Private Collection)"
Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction (Edited by Domna Pastourmatzi), 2002
Book Chapter
This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the f... more This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the field of artistic, literary and aesthetic expression. It also explores the ways social sciences and humanities are affected by posthumanism, and it asks how posthumanism can be an expansion of humanism in the contemporary world, rather than a transcendence of humanism. The chapters' authors come from different countries, cultural backgrounds and study areas to present a varied perspective on posthumanism.
Cluster Analysis for the Statistical Modeling of Aesthetic Judgment Data Related to Comics Artists
Enformatika Conferences, 2005
We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifyin... more We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifying cultural data related to the aesthetic judgment of comics artists. Such a classification is very important in Comics Art theory since the determination of any classes of similarities in such kind of data will provide to art-historians very fruitful information of Comics Art's evolution. To establish
Misunderstandings around Posthumanism. Lost in Translation? Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s “Metahuman Futures Manifesto” (2022)
Journal of Posthumanism
Posthumanism is still a largely debated new field of contemporary philosophy that mainly aims at ... more Posthumanism is still a largely debated new field of contemporary philosophy that mainly aims at broadening the Humanist perspective. Academics, researchers, scientists, and artists are constantly transforming and evolving theories and arguments, around the existing streams of Posthumanist thought, Critical Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Metahumanism, discussing whether they can finally integrate or follow completely different paths towards completely new directions. This paper, written for the 1st Metahuman Futures Forum (Lesvos 2022) will focus on Metahumanism and Jaime del Val’s “Metahuman Futures Manifesto” (2022) mainly as an open dialogue with Critical Posthumanism.
Posthuman Studies Reader - Core readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism
The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of de... more The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts, central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies. The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington, Karen Barad, Nick Bostrom, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Jaime del Val, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Elaine Graham, Donna Haraway, Ihab Habib Hassan, N. Katherine Hayles, James Hughes, Julian Huxley, Brian Massumi, Max More, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More and Cary Wolfe. "This Reader is a perfect guide to get into bleeding-edge philosophy."Nicolás Rojas Cortés, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile "The ...
ΤΡΙΚΑΛΙΝΑ. Ετήσια Επιστημονική Περιοδική Έκδοση Φ.Ι.ΛΟ.Σ., Τόμος 21, 2001
Μοναστήρια Νήσου Ιωαννίνων. Πρακτικά Συμποσίου, Επιμέλεια: Μίλτος Γαρίδης - Αθανάσιος Παλιούρας , 1999
The article is an extended review of the recent Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's book Philosophy of Posthu... more The article is an extended review of the recent Stefan Lorenz Sorgner's book Philosophy of Posthuman Art (2022) that explores the content and the aesthetic values introduced by the author as well as his shift to Critical Posthumanism, while he also keeps the philosophical essence of his own approach to Transhumanism, the main ideas of his contribution to Metahumanism and the desire of convergence of Trans-and Posthumanism. Sorgner's insight to contemporary art surpasses the boundaries usually set by art historians and underlines the artists' worldview and the philosophical meaning of their works in the context of the several trends of Posthumanism including social and cultural views and politics. Visual arts and music are studied in parallel with the evolution of posthumanist theories and arguments, while the issues of non-dualities, technology, religion, truth, ethics, reason, leisure, the western philosophies of the past and moreover "the need to coin new terms" are the crucial points of Sorgner's discussion with the readers. The book is more than valuable for its commitment to the notion of the philosophical meaning of contemporary artworks as well as for its opening to a new understanding of Posthumanism.
Ο ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΤΡΙΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΡΧΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΝΗΣ ΒΑΡΛΑΑΜ ΣΤΑ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΑ (1637)
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 2007
Focusing on the Persepolis series (vols I, II), the well-known graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi,... more Focusing on the Persepolis series (vols I, II), the well-known graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, I attempt an
inner view to the private as political in gender-orientated autobiography. Persepolis albums concentrate major characteristics of parallel kinds of narratives as political fiction or contemporary philosophy, while at the same time they are opened
to a wide range of matters such as the social gender, identities, immigration, refugees, orientalism. Born in 1969 in Rasht,
Iran, Marjane Satrapi was only a child when fundamentalists came to powerin her country and social life changed, especially
for women. Marjane studied at the Lycee Francais in Tehran and later left for Vienna and Strasburg. Having studied Fine
Arts and illustration, she now lives and works in France. Persepolis is an illustrated report of Marjane’s life from the prerevolutionary period to adulthood, describing the shaping of a young woman’s identity between a fundamentalist East and
an orientalist West.
Science Fiction In the World of Contemporary Visual Arts: The European Science Fiction Comics Culture1
… and medical themes in science fiction, 2002
Book Chapter
Journal of Posthumanism, 2022
The paper deals with a documentary narrative of the real story of a philosophical project that ca... more The paper deals with a documentary narrative of the real story of a philosophical project that came out of a huge accident. The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Soviet Union on April 26, 1986. In 1997, seven scientists involved into the accident leave Ukraine for health reasons. They settle on Gavdos, a small island south of Crete, the most distant border of Europe in the Mediterranean. They remain there for about fifteen years and initially have a major positive interaction with the local community, leading a Pythagorean School and several philosophical group meetings, public work, and constructions. During this time, they evolve a new philosophical approach to humanity, the option for immortality, based on what they call “Philosophical Evolution”, a combination of Pythagorean teaching and the ideas of Epicurus, and also specific views that can be related to critical posthumanism and transhumanism.
The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visit... more The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visitor from a passive receiver of messages to an active vehicle of knowledge and experiences.
Introduction The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition... more Introduction The contemporary communicative policy of exhibitions lays emphasis on the transition of the visitor from a passive receiver of messages to an active vehicle of knowledge and experiences. Multimedia applications afford places invested with synaesthetic and representational potentials that evoke intellectual and emotional involvement, “with the visual reinforcing the tactile, the physical reinforcing the intellectual”. In this way, the content is shown in an environment with narrative structure. The regulation of the flow of the experience provides interactive facilities that surpass the limits of the physical world.
Thanks to Reviewers
Andrea Abbas Peter Adey Madeleine Akrich Joseph Alter Ben Anderson Judith Aston Michael Atkinson ... more Andrea Abbas Peter Adey Madeleine Akrich Joseph Alter Ben Anderson Judith Aston Michael Atkinson Les Back Jay Baglia Olga Bailey Einat Bar-On Cohen Ruth Barcan Kirsten Bell Martha Bell Ole Bjerg Daniel Black Virginia Blum Tomas Boland Dave Boothroyd Eileen Boris Barbara Brickman Tristan Bridges Debra Budiani Ann Burlein Roger Burrows Raymond Caldwell Fiona Campbell Amanda Card Antonio Casilli Ambrogia Cereda Nigel Clark Constance Classen Patricia Clough Rebecca Coleman Verena Conley Grayson Cooke Melinda Cooper Nick Crossley Trevor Curnow Simone Davis Jakob Demant Robert Desjarlais Ignaas Devisch Kathleen Fahy
We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifyin... more We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifying cultural data related to the aesthetic judgment of comics artists. Such a classification is very important in Comics Art theory since the determination of any classes of similarities in such kind of data will provide to art-historians very fruitful information of Comics Art's evolution. To establish this, we use a categorical data set and we study it by employing three categorical data clustering algorithms. The performances of these algorithms are compared each other, while interpretations of the clustering results are also given.
Audiovisual Posthumanism, Edited by Evi D. Sampanikou, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Introduction The aim of this chapter is to record and analyse the ways in which the representatio... more Introduction
The aim of this chapter is to record and analyse the ways in which the
representation of the past has been constructed by large groups of
specialists or laymen, from Renaissance Humanism to the Posthumanist
digital present, when contemporary technological developments and
capabilities have opened new directions for archaeological research,
turning digital creators and new scientific experts into administrators of
archaeological images. We are therefore going to compare the analogic
and the three-dimensional images as archaeological tools and also as
humanistic (New Archaeology) and postmodern/posthumanistic (Post-
Processual Archaeology) media beginning from virtual archaeology.
“Virtual archaeology” is a developing scientific area using the
capabilities of computers to concentrate, catalogue, group and promote
archaeological material in a range of different ways and media for a wide
spectrum of applications. Virtual archaeology substantially rehabilitates
the geometric relationship between archaeological and architectural data
and describes in visual language the researcher’s verbal descriptions and
theories (Reilly, 1992, 147; Higgins, Main & Lang, 1996; Forte, Siliotti,
1997). The digital image, static or animated, is the final result of the
research and interpretative procedure in the theoretical framework of Post-
Processual Archaeology.
Μουσείο, Επικοινωνία και Νέες Τεχνολογίες / Museum, Communication and New Technologies, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, 2004
ΣΤ΄Διεθνές Πανιόνιο Συνέδριο (1997), 2004
A Paper from a 1997 Conference. Title in english: "Portable Icon Depicting the Decapitation of St... more A Paper from a 1997 Conference. Title in english: "Portable Icon Depicting the Decapitation of St John the Baptist (Private Collection)"
Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction (Edited by Domna Pastourmatzi), 2002
Book Chapter
This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the f... more This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the field of artistic, literary and aesthetic expression. It also explores the ways social sciences and humanities are affected by posthumanism, and it asks how posthumanism can be an expansion of humanism in the contemporary world, rather than a transcendence of humanism. The chapters' authors come from different countries, cultural backgrounds and study areas to present a varied perspective on posthumanism.
Cluster Analysis for the Statistical Modeling of Aesthetic Judgment Data Related to Comics Artists
Enformatika Conferences, 2005
We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifyin... more We compare three categorical data clustering algorithms with respect to the problem of classifying cultural data related to the aesthetic judgment of comics artists. Such a classification is very important in Comics Art theory since the determination of any classes of similarities in such kind of data will provide to art-historians very fruitful information of Comics Art's evolution. To establish
![Research paper thumbnail of Εύη Σαμπανίκου, "Ο κόσμος των Schuiten και Peeters. Les Cites Obscures". In: Εύη Σαμπανίκου, Αβραάμ Κάουα, Πάνος Κρητικός, Μυρτώ Τσελέντη (επιμελητές), "Μεταξύ Φαντασίας και Πραγματικότητας. Σκέψεις και απόψεις για τα Κόμικς, Μυτιλήνη 2005, σελ. 80-97 [Evi Sampanikou, Sampanikou Obscure Cities]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/117501318/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Μεταξύ Φαντασίας και Πραγματικότητας. Σκέψεις και Απόψεις για τα Κόμικς [Between Imagination and Reality. Thoughts and Views on Comics], 2005
A text written for the first Greek academic confernce on Comics, held in 10-11 May 2003. The pape... more A text written for the first Greek academic confernce on Comics, held in 10-11 May 2003. The papers of this conference were later published in a book under the title "Μεταξύ Φαντασίας και Πραγματικότητας. Σκέψεις και απόψεις για τα Κόμικς" (Between Imagination and Reality. Thoughts and Views on Comics), funded by a national programme and published by my department (Department of Cultural Technology and Communication - University of the Agean, Mytilini-Lesvos-Greece) in 2005.The editing team was ICONOTOPIA, a research group consisted by four members (Evi Sampanikou, Abraham Kawa, Panos Kritikos and Myrto Tselenti) affiliated to the Cultural Informatics Research Lab of the Department. I think this is an interesting volume to explore nowadays, almost 20 years later, to see how the comics research in my department started. It is still continued.
Μίλτος Γαρίδης (1926-1996). ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΑ, τόμος Β' , Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, Τομέας Αρχαιολογίας, 2003
Tracing the Fantastic. Greek Fantasy and Science Fiction Comics between 1974-2004 , 2005
The pre-final text that unfortunately contains no images of our out-of-print work on fantasy and ... more The pre-final text that unfortunately contains no images of our out-of-print work on fantasy and science fiction comics in Greece from 1974 to 2004.
ΣΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΑ ΔΙΑΤΡΙΒΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ Η ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΤΕΧΝΟΤΡΟΠΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ Π... more ΣΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΑ ΔΙΑΤΡΙΒΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ Η ΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΤΕΧΝΟΤΡΟΠΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΤΡΙΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΡΧΩΝ ΣΤΗ ΜΟΝΗ ΒΑΡΛΑΑΜ ΣΤΑ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΑ (1637). ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΕΙΤΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΛΛΗΛΑ Η ΣΚΙΑΓΡΑΦΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΥ ΠΛΑΙΣΙΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΙΚΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΗΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΟ ΕΛΛΑΔΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΟ ΚΑΘΩΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΝΤΑΞΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΣΥΝΟΛΟ ΤΗΣ ΒΑΛΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗΣ. ΑΥΤΟ ΕΠΙΤΥΓΧΑΝΕΤΑΙ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΤΥΠΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΗΓΟΥΜΕΝΟΥΣ ΑΙΩΝΕΣ, ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΣΤΟ 16Ο ΑΙΩΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΚΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΣΧΟΛΗ ΣΤΟ ΑΘΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΑ. ΕΞΕΤΑΖΕΤΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΛΛΗΛΑ ΜΙΑ ΣΕΙΡΑ ΜΝΗΜΕΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ 17ΟΥ ΑΙ. ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΜΕ ΣΚΟΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΕΝΤΑΞΗ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΡΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΙΜΕΝΟ ΧΩΡΟ ΚΑΙ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΙΧΝΕΥΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΑΚΟΥ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΕΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΟΥ. ΑΝΑΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΑΙ ΤΑΥΤΟΧΡΟΝΑ ΑΛΛΑ ΕΡΓΑ ΤΟΥΣ. ΠΑΡΑΤΙΘΕΤΑΙ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΕΝΑΣ ΑΡΙΘΜΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΓΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΩΝ ΜΝΗΜΕΙΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΕΠΗΡΕΑΖΟΝΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΣΥΓΚΕΚΡΙΜΕΝΟ ΣΥΝΟΛΟ ΚΑΙ ΘΑ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΣΑΝ ΝΑ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΟΥΝ ΑΦΟΡΜΗ ΓΙΑ ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ.
THE ICONOGRAPHY AND THE STYLE OF THE WALL-PAINTINGS OF THE THREE HIERARCHS CHAPEL IN BARLAAM MONASTERY, METEORA 1637, ARE SYSTEMATICALLY ANALYZED IN THIS PH.D DISSERTATION. THERE IS AN ATTEMPT FOR THE FORMATION OF AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION IN THE AREA OF CENTRAL GREECE AND THE PLACEMENT OF THE MONUMENT IN BALKAN PAINTING IN GENERAL. THIS IS SUCCEEDEDBY SEARCHING FOR THE ORIGINS OF THE DECORATION IN THE PREVIOUS CENTURIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE 16TH CENTURY AND THE CRETAN SCHOOL IN ATHOS AND METEORA. A SERIES OF 17TH CENTURY MONUMENTS IN THE AREA OF CENTRAL GREECE IS ALSO EXAMINED FOR THE PLACEMENT OF THE CHAPEL'S PAINTING IN THE SPECIFIC AREA AND ERA. THE WESTERN INFLUENCES ON THE PAINTERS' WORKSHOP ARE ALSO SET. MOREOVER, A GENERAL SEARCH FOR OTHER WORKS OF THE PAINTERS' GROUP TAKES PLACE. FINALLY, A CATALOGUE OF LATER 17TH CENTURY MONUMENTS IN CENTRAL THESSALY IS GIVEN, AS AN INITIATIVE FOR FUTURE RESEARCH.