Tuesday, 13 April–Saturday,
12 June 2004
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
presents an exhibition featuring the scholarly rediscovery
and restoration of one of the most impressive Byzantine monuments
to survive in the modern city of Istanbul: the church of
the Chora Monastery, better known by its Turkish name Kariye
Camii. Founded probably as early as the sixth century, rebuilt
in the late eleventh and early twelfth century, and splendidly
restored by the Byzantine humanist, poet, and later prime
minister Theodore Metochites between 1316 and 1321, the church
of the Chora Monastery is today considered an 'icon' of Late
Byzantine art and architecture.
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