On Thursday October 18 took place a lecture of Chiara Bordino, MSCA fellow of the Centre, entitled Byzantine Painting in the
13th Century: Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Balkans.
The lecture was devoted to the main pictorial cycles produced in the Byzantine world during the 13th century, at the time of the Latin Empire
of Constantinople (1204–1261) and after the reconquest of the capital by the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus. Some pictorial
decorations made in the Balkans by the will of the Nemanjić Serbian dynasty were examined, such as those ones of Studenica, Žiča, Mileševa, Morača, Peć,
and Sopoćani. Concerning Asia Minor, special attention was devoted to the paintings of the church of Hagia Sophia in Trabzon, realized thanks to the
patronage of the Grand Komnenoi. Although they were realized in areas far from the Byzantine capital, all these pictorial decorations were closely
connected to the artistic culture of Constantinople and Nicaea and allow us to follow the process of deep renovation that transformed the Byzantine
painting in the 13th century reaching a peak in the Paleologan Age.
