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Church of Mar Elias Btina in Beirut (Lebanon) and its wall paintings. Conservation project report
Ist Teil von
Polish archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2014, Vol.1 (XXIII), p.403-413
Ort / Verlag
University of Warsaw Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 2007, renovation work in the Greek-Orthodox Church of Mar Elias Btina in
Beirut resulted in the discovery of some wall painting fragments. They were fully uncovered
and preserved in 2010 and 2011 by conservators from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in
cooperation with archaeologists from the PCMA UW. The wall paintings, dated provisionally to
the 12th–13th century, was an almost complete decoration of the presbytery walls, which
included depictions of the Prophet Elijah and a number of unidentified saints. This discovery
significantly enriches the corpus of St Elijah’s representations in the medieval art of the Christian
East and opens new avenues of discussion regarding church art of Beirut in the Crusader period.