Post-Byzantine hermeneiai zographikes in the eighteenth century and their dissemination in the Balkans during the nineteenth century

Author: Moutafov, Emmanuel

Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Volume 30, Number 1, January 2006 , pp. 69-79(11)

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Abstract:

This article focuses on the significance of the Orthodox painters' manuals, called hermeneiai zographikes, in the development of post-Byzantine iconography and painting technology and techniques in the Balkans during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using a number of unpublished painters' manuals (Greek and Slavonic) as primary sources for the study of Christian and Ottoman culture in the Balkan peninsula, it is possible to examine perceptions of Europe in the Balkans, in particular the principal routes for the transmission of ideas of the European Enlightenment, as well as the role of artists as mediators in the processes of 'Europeanization'.

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/030701306X96609

Publication date: 2006-01-01

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