Cappdocia, Frescoes of Peristrema 8th cent. - A History of Romanesque Architecture 300 - 1300 (sitios de interés)
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This marker is part of an illustrated Survey of Romanesque Architecture, 300 to 1300 AD. To see and read all comments you have to download the post to your hard disk.Cappadocia, The Frecoes of Peristrema 8th cent
There are supposedly twenty-five chapels and churches hidden in caves in the rock walls. We could find only three, but they were special.
The paintings in the Sumbullu Kilise - the Church of the Hyacinth must be the oldest frescoes I have seen outside of Georgia and Dunhuang.
This "Elevation of Christ" predates the Iconoclast Period — i.e., it goes back to the beginning of the 8th century. It is different from the Elevation (a relief not a fresco) at Djvari-Mtskheta in Georgia (5th cent) where Christ is represented only by a cross carried by angels. Here Christ actually appears, floating on a Greek cross, and carried (according to Dionysos Arapagitos' mystic visions) by tweny-four wonderfully naïve angels.
The frescoes in the vault of another church are half a century later! Fully abstract - an influence of the nascent Islamic movement without their acute sense of form - they are from the Iconoclast Period (725-843 AD).
