Annemarie Weyl Carr is Professor Emerita of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Andreas Nicolaides is maitre de conference of Byzantine Art History and Archaeology at the Universite de Provence.
Although the church is famous to many for its original fresco
program (1105/6) by the so-called Asinou Master, Asinou across Time
focuses on the history and decorative campaigns of the later phases
of painting (twelfth to sixteenth centuries). In addition to an
up-to-date analysis that confirms and solidifies many of David
Winfield’s published conclusions, the book introduces a new level
of technical analysis into the world of Byzantine painting (chapter
7) and represents a number of other firsts: the first attempt at a
comprehensive history for the church and monastery (chapter 1), the
first illustrated inventory of its paleographic forms (appendix),
and the first monograph on one of the island’s major diachronic
churches. As such, Asinou across Time is both a foundational work
for this particular church, and sets a high bar for future
monographs on Cypriot monuments…As a whole, Asinou across Time
provides a perfect parallel for the monument it examines. Both are
multi-layered, beautifully decorated with high-quality images, and
collaborative, well-funded works whose complex wholes comprise
equally interesting individual parts.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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