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The Byzantine bell-tower in Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos (1427). The Sculpted decoration and its significance (with 24 figures)

    Dimitrios Liakos

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 65, pp. 153-168, 2016/04/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb65s153

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doi:10.1553/joeb65s153


Abstract

The present paper focuses on the marble architectural members inserted into the bell-tower of Vatopedi monastery. Their study enriches our knowledge about the sculpted decoration especially in the middle and late Byzantine period; moreover, an aspect of the nature and organization of the marble decoration in a non-ecclesiastical Athonite building, erected just a few years after the Ottoman Occupation of Mount Athos, is provided. Additionally, the reused spolia render some enquires about their provenance necessary; this question remains open and only hypotheses can be expressed