2023年10月25日 · In the present study, a corresponding attempt to record, scan and then reconstruct a 17th century “Bema Door” (located in the Holy Monastery of Hilandar in Mount Athos) is implemented, presented step-by-step and discussed, in order to highlight the challenges and potential of the applied methods.

The bema doors in many post-Byzantine iconostases display this iconographic scheme. The two lower panels must have been decorated with purely ornamental motifs, of which certain traces still remain: a pair of horns of plenty framing fruit, and a bird pecking at what is probably fruits.

2024年7月3日 · The current work transfers the experience of these reproduction techniques as applied to a 17th-century “Bema Door” element, sharing significant information and details on the tools, materials, process steps, etc., with the aim of being an inspiration for the preservation or reproduction of other highly important cultural heritage monuments.

These bema doors are one of the larger and most beautiful Cretan bema doors surviving. They bear a late-gothic topping with sprouts and leaves of exquisite craftsmanship, on a drilled...

The impressive pair of bema doors formerly in the Velimezis-Makris-Margaritis Collections, today in the Collection of Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, with the bipartite arrangement of their painted decoration and the domination of wood-carving on the body, is classed in the category Ε6.

2023年10月25日 · In the present study, a corresponding attempt to record, scan and then reconstruct a 17th century “Bema Door” (located in the Holy Monastery of Hilandar in Mount Athos) is implemented, presented step-by-step and discussed, in order to highlight the challenges and potential of the applied methods.

These bema doors originally combined carved relief and painting, which has been worn off. They are divided into two sections. In the lower one there are four arches resting on columns which probably framed paintings of prophets and hierarchs.

The low relief, the stylised rendering of the decorative subjects, and various other details place these bema doors in the early decades of the seventeenth century; but they are chiefly characterised by the choice and composition of the themes and the addition of the canopy, which hints at western models.

Specifically, the particular Bema door constitutes a part of an iconostasis, constructed in the year 1615 and belongs to the Hilandar Monastery of Mount Athos ( Figure 2 ), which only a few...

2023年10月25日 · In the present study, a corresponding attempt to record, scan and then reconstruct a 17th century "Bema Door" (located in the Holy Monastery of Hilandar in Mount Athos) is implemented, presented...