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ItemArt byzantin et peintres français au XIXe siècle sur le Mont Athos(Université de Poitiers, 2023) Seraïdari, KaterinaThe article examines the interest, which arose around Byzantine art in France around the 1840s and which led to the discovery of Panselinos’ work on Mount Athos, but also of a tradition favoring a collective way of doing – this artistic tradition being already threatened by Russian influence. Two French painters are at the center of the article: Alexandre Bida, who painted the Refectory of Greek monks on Mount Athos but who, apparently, never visited this place; and Dominique Papety, who stayed there for a little more than a week during the summer of 1846 but who made a great number of drawings during his visit. The work of these painters shows Mount Athos as a place of artistic production, conservation and transmission. It also places this monastic peninsula and its inhabitants, deliberately staying at the margins of society, in the center of artistic debates in France.
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ItemIcons as Marketable Objects(Muzeul Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia, 2020-04-04) Seraïdari, KaterinaL’étude examine les raisons pour lesquelles les icônes russes, ou imitant un style russe, sont devenues des objets à la mode, commercialisés en Grèce du milieu du XIXe au début du XXe siècle. Elle met ainsi en lumière un phénomène social : la diffusion et la popularité des icônes russes dans ce pays, mais aussi au Mont Athos – une région considérée comme étant le ‘gardien’ de la tradition orthodoxe et de l’authenticité qui faisait encore partie de l’Empire O1oman pendant l’époque en question. Les conséquences de ce1e circulation sont également analysées. Ce phénomène culturel a mené à une banalisation du commerce des icônes et à une confusion croissante entre le domaine de la spiritualité et celui des transactions économiques. La production d’icônes émerge donc comme une arène d’intérêts concurrents; ce qui révèle l’asymétrie de l’influence que la Grèce (un état récemment fondé et économiquement instable) et l’Empire russe exerçaient dans le monde orthodoxe.
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ItemLa carrière patrimoniale d’une mosaïque portative byzantine(Actes Sud, 2022) Seraïdari, KaterinaThis article tells two parallel stories: one about a 14th century Athonite icon that was in the collection of a Russian diplomat in 1894 before it was acquired by the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, and the other is the emergence of a new object of study in the field of Byzantine Art starting at the end of the 19th century, precisely when these pieces (that were being studied systematically for the first time) were increasingly sought after by collectors. Thus, this article examines how a type of object (small portable mosaics) was identified and named at the end of the 19th century. Efforts to define this type of object were signified by the production of lists of byzantine miniatures that had survived the passage of time. Inventories revealed the great rarity of these pieces that were already highly desirable amongst Italian collectors during the Renaissance. This article follows the trajectory of one such mosaic, which after having been kept in place in the treasury of the Vatopedi Monastery, was moved around a number of times. Its change of status (from object of devotion to a museum work), the conditions of its displacements and the different forms of exchange in which it was involved (gifts but also sales) reveal a correlation with the development of archeological studies on such portable mosaics. The articulation between these two stories shows that the process of organizing knowledge on certain topics can directly affect the art and antiquities market.
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ItemMuseographic Objects, Saints, and Sacred Places(Muzeul Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia, 2022) Seraïdari, KaterinaL’article nous présente la manière dont trois histoires, avec des finalités très différentes, s’avèrent en réalité interconnectées. La première histoire est celle de saint Antoine Petchersky (xe-xie siècle), père du monachisme russe et fondateur de la Laure des Grottes de Kyïv; la deuxième concerne un monastère du Mont Athos, où ce saint aurait vécu pendant un certain temps au xie siècle; la troisième nous parle d’un objet qu’il aurait porté. La présente étude permet d’explorer la rivalité entre Grecs et Russes au Mont Athos dans la seconde moitié du xixe siècle. Elle permet également d’interroger la question des ‘faux’ objets et la pertinence culturelle de ces derniers.
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ItemSaint Jean le Russe : pèlerinage et territorialité(RGH-La Revue de géographie historique, 2020) Seraïdari, KaterinaConstructed in a locality of Evia in 1951, the church of Saint John the Russian constitutes one of the most important pilgrimages of Greece. The article examines the religious, memorial and commercial parameters of this pilgrimage, as well as the dimension of territoriality and its deployment on three levels: a) the models of identification of the refugees who brought the relic of the saint from their native Cappadocia to Evia in 1924, after the population exchange between Greece and Turkey; b) the feeling of familiarity of Russian pilgrims who come massively to pray in front of the relic; and c) the logic of appropriation. Adopting a diachronic perspective, the article shows the fundamental role Russians have played in the establishment of the saint’s worship since 1881 – when the forearm of the saint’s relic was offered to Russian monks at the monastery of Panteleimon of Mount Athos. The Russian offerings of the nineteenth century, which are exposed in the museum next to the shrine, bring the proof of this continuity and inscribe current Russian visitors into a “lineage” of pilgrims. Through these marks of territoriality, the limits between familiarity and appropriation are redefined: although the saint was their compatriot, he has always decided to stay with those who were the first to recognize his sanctity (even before his death), that is the Orthodox of Prokopi. If the Russian offerings of the nineteenth century give temporal depth to the relationship between the saint and the Russian pilgrims, the dimension of territoriality that these objects evoke, takes another form in the case of the refugees’ descendants: for them, the Russian offerings are a source of pride (proving the international reputation of theirsaint) but also the legacy of their Cappadocian ancestors, the Karamanlides. This Orthodox population was speaking Ottoman Turkish, but wrote in Greek characters: as their current descendants stress, the Orthodox of Prokopi decided to lose the use of Greek language in order to be able to keep their Orthodox faith. Although this Turkish-speaking population constitutes a challenge to the Greek national rhetoric, the reference to the Russians manages to “des-Ottomanize” the Orthodox of Prokopi, since the regular contacts between the two groups started at the end of a period of military confrontations between the Russian and the Ottoman Empire (the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878). The Russian offerings of the nineteenth century, but also the “Russian corner” (decorated with frescos of Russian saints) that one’s can find next to the reliquary of the saint, show the capacity of this site of pilgrimage to evoke other spaces (like Cappadocia, Mount Athos or Russia) and to develop, in a variety of forms, the dimension of territoriality.
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ItemSaint John the Russian (ca. 1690-1730) and the spread of his cult(University of Balamand, 2021) Seraïdari, KaterinaThis paper examines the development of St John the Russian’s cult in Cappadocia, and more specifically the historical and social conditions as well as the interests and intentions that played a role in its stabilization and diffusion. Encouraged by the representatives of the Greek Enlightenment who wished to give impulse to the “Hellenization” process and defend Orthodox faith against Protestant missionaries’ influence, this cult received a new impulse after the intervention of Russian monks at the end of the nineteenth century.
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ItemTransporter, cacher, détruire : les « objets réfugiés » des orthodoxes de Turquie (1912-1924)(Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, 2022-01) Seraïdari, KaterinaAdopting a biographical approach to objects, this article aims to trace the history of the “refugee objects” that Greek- and Turkish-speaking Orthodox brought to Greece during a period that begins in 1912 (the “first exile”) and ends with the population exchange following the Lausanne Convention of 1923. Three eventualities are examined: objects that were transported, hidden, or destroyed. Only those that were set in motion and also arrived at their destination can be characterized today as “refugee objects.” Transport under these circumstances requalified the object, conferring upon it a testimonial value in relation to its former life, the misadventures of exile, and the difficulties experienced after arriving in Greece.