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Ένα βιβλίο, έξι αιώνες ιστορίας. Εκδόσεις από την αυγή της τυπογραφίας στις βιβλιοθήκες της Αθήνας. Πρακτικά ημερίδας 13 Απριλίου 2019, 2020

The work by Bernhard von Breydenbach (Breidenbach) (ca. 1440-1497), Bishop of Mainz, entitled Per... more The work by Bernhard von Breydenbach (Breidenbach) (ca. 1440-1497), Bishop of Mainz, entitled Peregrinatio in terram sanctam is considered a milestone for travel literature, as it is the first illustrated edition, in the early years of printing activity. It was published on 11 February 1486, only two years after Breydenbach’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The text, written in Latin, is attributed to Martin Roth and appears to be based on the travel diary of the Swiss Dominican friar Felix Fabri (1437/38-1502), who first travelled to Palestine in 1480 and then, for a second time, along with Breydenbach. The very interesting and quite faithful illustrations –woodcuts depicting cityscapes, human figures, alphabets, animals etc. encountered en route from Venice to Palestine– are the work of the Dutch painter Erhard Reuwich (Everand van Reewijk), who also accompanied Breydenbach. Reuwich himself, according to information included in the publication, printed the book at his home in Mainz. The successful course of the publication, due to the illustrations, led four months later, on 21 June 1486, to a second edition in German (Reise ins Heilige Land). There were also other incunable editions and translations in Flemish, French and Spanish. The Finopoulos Collection has both incunable editions (in Latin and in German) from the first year of their publication (1486). This work, one of the most significant items of the collection, marks the beginning of the period covered by its content (15th-19th centuries). In this presentation, we will discuss the individual features of each copy, their place in the archival organization of the collection and their value as historical evidence that has survived to this day over the last five centuries.

Incunabula, 2020

O ι αρχέτυπες εκδόσεις, ως πολύτιμες πηγές, προσφέρουν στη σύγχρονη διεπιστημονική έρευνα τη δυνα... more O ι αρχέτυπες εκδόσεις, ως πολύτιμες πηγές, προσφέρουν στη σύγχρονη διεπιστημονική έρευνα τη δυνατότητα της ανασύστασης ενός μέρους του ιστορικού τοπίου στον 15ο αιώνα. μεταξύ των 28.000 τίτλων που έχουν καταγραφεί παγκοσμίως 1 εντοπίζονται και ορισμένοι που σχετίζονται με την περιηγητική γραμματεία. ςτο έργο του bernhard von breydenbach 2 Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, το οποίο περιλαμβάνεται στη ςυλλογή

Benaki Museum Supplement, 2023

The Efstathios Finopoulos Collection is distinguished by the many different editions of the same ... more The Efstathios Finopoulos Collection is distinguished by the many different editions of the same title and their pictorial variants. This paper focuses on four examples out of the many others that exist in the collection.
Three rare engravings by the artist William Delacour, published in London in 1739, serve as the first example. The engravings, which depict women from the Greek isles, are based on drawings that Delacour made after the original ones by Jean-Etienne Liotard who visited the Archipelago on his way to Constantinople in 1738. Among the nine drawings and seven engravings that are known today worldwide, we discuss the uniqueness of the examples held in the Finopoulos Collection, testified by the fact that they are numbered, which enhances the assumption that Delacour engraved all of his drawings.
Both editions of Julien David Le Roy, Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce…, of 1758, 1770 offered to the antiquarian environment of the time the new reception of the ancient Greek monuments, overturning the primacy of ancient Roman art, promoting thus the supremacy of the ancient Greek. This paper focuses on the iconographic variations in Robert Sayer’s edition where monuments, landscapes and humans are detached from J. D. Le Roy’s work to compose a new visual experience while preserving the quality, style and architectural references of Le Roy’s original artistic proposal.
Among the holdings of the Finopoulos Collection, special importance is placed on the work of James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens. A highly influential publication for Greek Revival architecture and the introduction of Neoclassical taste worldwide, the work was dear to Finopoulos’s heart since it marked the beginning of his collecting activity. Ever since that first acquisition, in 1963, Finopoulos managed to acquire several editions of the work in many languages (English, French, German and Italian). Among those, there is a rare, presumed unfinished edition in English that came out in London in 1850. It was published in serial form, every two weeks, with an attractive price in order to reach a wide audience. Descriptions of the many editions of The Antiquities of Athens in the collection and in particular of this latter edition are discussed as a third study case.
As a last example we turn our attention on the variations of Parthenon’s engraving from the famous J.-J. Barthélemy’s Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece (Paris 1788) which is included in the Atlas of the work. Among the numerous editions in the Collection, the engraving is presented in several variations, reflecting the taste of Neoclassicism and Romanticism together with allusions to the celebrated notions of freedom and democracy of Greek antiquity. These notions respond to the demands of the French Revolution, the period in which Barthelemy’s work was published.
All four examples showcase not only the variety of the holdings in the Finopoulos Collection but also in many cases their rarity. Furthermore, they bear testimony of the discerning eye of Efstathios J. Finopoulos and of a life dedicated to collecting with enthusiasm Greek and Ottoman-related books and prints.

Symposia, Conferences, Workshops by Maria Xenariou

by Paschalis Androudis, Anthi Andronikou, Tassos Antonaras, Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu, Anna Gialouri, Konstantinos Gravanis, Ioanna Koukouni, Andrea Missagia, Tassos Papacostas, Elena Papastavrou, Stefania S. Skartsis / Στεφανία Σ. Σκαρτσή, Margarita Voulgaropoulou, Sotiris Voyadjis, Maria Xenariou, Zeynep Meriç, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Angeliki Panopoulou, Sofia Zoitou, Αναστάσιος Αντωνάρας, and Δήμητρα Πέτρου

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to share with you our initiative for an international conferen... more Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to share with you our initiative for an international conference devoted to Italian artworks, secular and ecclesiastical, of 14th-16th c. in the Greek East, to be held virtually via Zoom in 24-26 November 2023. A hybrid version of the Conference will be hosted by the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies in Venice (Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia).
This scholarly meeting seeks to illuminate not only the presence of Italians, but also the amassment of Italian works in the Greek East, as a result of the new realities following the Fourth Crusade, the establishment of various Latin dominions and the development of an intensive network of trade relations. Our conference does not aim at exhausting the subject, but would like to offer an interdisciplinary forum for papers that touch upon the following aspects:
 Venetian domination in Greece
 Genoese domination in NE Aegean
 Italian rulers in Epirus and the Ionian islands
 Italian traders in the East
 Venetian and Ottoman Art: osmosis and interaction
 Venetian and Byzantine Art: osmosis and interaction
 Late Gothic and Early Renaissance Italian sculpture
 Venetian and Genoese Heraldry
 Italian woodwork
 Italian painting
 Objects of everyday life
 Metal artifacts from West and East
 Maiolica and other Italian ceramics
 Venetian glass
 Italian Textiles
 Italian Costumes
 Donors and their ideology as reflected on the patronage of artworks
The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by the Hellenic Institute of Venice.

The organizing Committee:

Michela AGAZZI, Professor of Medieval Art, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia, Dipartimento i Filosofia e Beni Culturali

Paschalis ANDROUDIS, Assistant Professor in Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Vasileios KOUKOUSAS, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Director of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies in Venice

Silvia PEDONE, Dr, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma

by Paschalis Androudis, Maria-Mirka Palioura, Mustafa Çağhan Keskin, Eleni Faka, Petra Lučeničová, Michael Festas, Sverrir Jakobsson, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Maria Kostaridou, Ioanna Koukouni, Tea Susanj Protic, Eleni Tounta, Angeliki Tzavara, Maria Xenariou, Athina Zoupanti, Oleg G . Ulyanov (Олег Германович Ульянов), Ibrahim Canbulat, Philip Rance, ANGELIKI PANAGOPOULOU, Jean-David Richaud-Mammeri, Georgia Graikou, and Irini Solomonidi

Stephanos Yerasimos (Istanbul 1942- Paris 2005) was a pioneering scholar of Byzantine and Ottoman... more Stephanos Yerasimos (Istanbul 1942- Paris 2005) was a pioneering scholar of Byzantine and Ottoman Studies. His monumental monograph: Les voyageurs dans l’Empire Ottoman (XIVe-XVIe siècles). Bibliographie, itinéraires et inventaire des lieux habités (Ankara 1991), is a pioneering study on travelers to the Ottoman Empire and still one of the most important in the field.
Nowadays, more than 30 years after the publication of his book it is worthly to revisit and widen its topic in time, with the organization of an international conference on Travelers in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires (12th-16th c.) dedicated to his work and loving memory. The Conference will be hybrid (in Venice and virtually via zoom), from 15 to 17 December 2023.
The proposed scholarly meeting seeks to illuminate not only the topic of Travelers and their writings, but also to offer an interdisciplinary forum for a selection of papers that may touch upon some of the following aspects:
 Travelers to Byzantium
 Travelers to Greece and Asia Minor
 Travelers to Constantinople
 Travelers to Cyprus
 Travelers to Istanbul
 Travelers in the Balkans
 Travelers in Anatolia
 Arab travelers to Byzantium
 Western Travelers to Byzantium
 Jewish Travelers to Byzantium
 Russian travelers to Byzantium
 Byzantine travelers to the East
 Byzantine travelers to the West
 Silk routes travelers
 Ibn Battutta
 Western travelers to the Ottoman Empire
 Ottoman travelers in the Ottoman Empire
 Ottoman travelers to the West
 Monuments through travelers’ chronicles
 Objects of minor arts through travelers’ chronicles
 Merchants and their travels
 Ambassadors and travels
 Travels and ports
 Travels and accommodation (inns, hans)
 Travels by sea
 Isolarii
 Maps and mapmaking
 Portolans
Languages of Conference: English, French, Italian, Greek.
The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by the Hellenic Institute of Venice.

Incunabula, 2020

Benaki Museum Supplement, 2023

The organizing Committee:

Michela AGAZZI, Professor of Medieval Art, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia, Dipartimento i Filosofia e Beni Culturali

Paschalis ANDROUDIS, Assistant Professor in Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Vasileios KOUKOUSAS, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Director of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Studies in Venice

Silvia PEDONE, Dr, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma