Pammakaristos, Church of Hagia Maria Reference library
Cyril Mango
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
..., Church of Hagia Maria (Turk. Fethiye Camii), monastic church at Constantinople, probably founded in the 12th C. by a John Komnenos . After 1261 it came into the possession of the protostrator Michael Tarchaneiotes Glabas (died ca. 1305 ), who was buried there in the south parekklesion built in his memory by his widow Maria. Around 1455 Gennadios II Scholarios chose the Pammakaristos as the seat of the Greek patriarchate; it remained such until 1587 , when the Turks confiscated it and converted it into a mosque. A document of the...
Pammakaristos, Church of Hagia Maria
Parekklesion Reference library
Mark J. Johnson
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...structure built for funerary purposes. Another important example of the period, also sepulchral in nature, was built in the form of a small cross-in-square church on the south flank of Hagia Maria Pammakaristos . Mark J....
Byzantine Art Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...The voluminous treatment of bodies was achieved by a subtle graduation of tones lit by luminous highlights. The Mosaics of the church of Pammakaristos ( 1310–1320 ) and those of the monastery of Chora ( 1315–1321 ) are the finest groups in the capital, to which we can add the panel of the Deisis in the south tribune of Hagia Sophia ( 1261–1262 ). The funerary chapel of the church of Chora, entirely covered with Frescoes , presents a detailed composition of the Last Judgment . Paintings whose quality equals that of the capital are found in centres...
Monumental Painting Reference library
William Tronzo, Annabel Jane Wharton, and Gordana Babić
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...few monuments survive, written sources testify to the existence of considerable artistic activity in Constantinople in the years between the restoration of the Byz. Empire in 1261 and 1300 . Some older churches were restored ( St. Andrew in Krisei), and others, such as the church dedicated by the empress Theodora Palaiologina to St. John the Baptist (south church of the Lips monastery ) or the north church of the Virgin Pammakaristos , were built anew. The churches founded by Nikephoros Choumnos and his daughter, Irene Choumnaina , and by the...
