Des peintures murales syriaques inédites: l’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe dans le Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Sud-est de la Turquie)

Des peintures murales syriaques inédites: l’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe dans le Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Sud-est de la Turquie)ConviviumSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/28RPI9SG/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AlexandreVarelaDes peintures murales syriaques inédites: l’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe dans le Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Sud-est de la Turquie)http://syriaca.org/cbss/28RPI9SGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/28RPI9SGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/28RPI9SGConvivium8:22021110-131In southeastern Turkey, Tūr ʿAbdīn is an essential region for Syriac Christianity owing to its many churches and monasteries and to its religious importance during Middle Ages. Nevertheless, despite literary evidence of a figural painting tradition in Syriac church, most of the churches in Tūr ʿAbdīn have today no surviving painted decoration because of the ravages of time and long neglect. This paper offers a depiction and analysis of what seems to be the only monumental painting surviving in the region: the apse decoration of Mor-Stephanos Church in the village of Kfarbe. Recently discovered, these paintings warrant analysis of their iconography and stylistic interpretation. Using written sources and examples of Syriac figurative paintings outside Tūr ʿAbdīn, this article offers a hypothesis about the dating, style, and iconography of such an important testimony for Syriac art history. Varela, Alexandre. “Des Peintures Murales Syriaques Inédites: L’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe Dans Le Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Sud-Est de La Turquie).” Convivium 8:2 (2021): 110–31. Alexandre Varela, Des Peintures Murales Syriaques Inédites: L’église Mor-Stephanos de Kfarbe Dans Le Ṭūr ‘Abdīn (Sud-Est de La Turquie), Convivium 8:2 (2021): 110–31.JacobitesStephen the ProtomartyrTur AbdinVII-XVIII CEarchaeologyartchurchesfrescoesiconography