cormack, rediscovering the christ pantocrator at daphni

Rediscovering the Christ Pantocrator at Daphni Author(s): Robin Cormack Source: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 71 (2008), pp. 55-74 Published by: The Warburg Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20462776 .
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Pantocrator in the dome of
the
eleventh-century
ment'),
in
contrast
with
the
exaggerated
a
Christ-God
in
His
glory,

56 CHRIST PANTOCRATOR AT DAPHNI
complexities of the design of the dome inByzantium. Back in the
ninth century,
a sermon to
in
appropriate
for
of
look
'correct'.
The likely reason for the reticence of Byzantine specialists over theDaphni
Pantocrator is simple enough. It is that serious suspicions have arisen
as towhether
the dome
Byzantines saw
Greece, those of
to
fall
walls,
and
now
nineteenth-century estoration,
in
more
than
5-

piece of previously
mosaic
in
the
latenineteenth
century.
his
key
in a
foruse as a
centuries;
and
that
signifi
cantly
remade
in
part,
with
whole
faces
being
added
we are
they
ofArt
in
the
I96os
ation,

the
wall,
this
procedure
has
seldom

of
the

What happened
Daphni happened to
of I899. Russian- and German-speaking scholars were also active, especially
in
Turkey
School
of
encouraged
to
go
to
Greece
the
joint
author,
with
Sidney
Barnsley,
published
watercolours
ofHosios
Lukas)
have
only
limited
archaeological
value.
deplored
St
Sophia
at
Lower
Kingswood
in
Surrey

was not
Paul
Taylor
in
the

I906,
of some of themosaic surfaces.
George's
work
reflects
he
of themosaic
the
mosaic
if
tcan
Lambakis, togetherwith the informative
nnual 'Archaeology inGreece' reports
in
mosaicists from
in
theBSA
reports
as
able
to
up
before
specialistmosaicist, Novelle,

CHRIST PANTOCRATOR AT DAPHNI
from taly, ut he complains that as usual nothingwas achieved. This may not be
strictly ccurate,
at San Marco at
n
radically repaired, and thedome and drum were takendown and reconstituted;
n
due
course
so
were
the
narthex,
north-west
chapel,
all
but
completed:
'Almost
all
of
them
have
building
under
taken
in
I89I-92.
What
clearly
had
happened
was
that
aphni
mosaic surface
treatment
of
the
Acropolis
in
the
19th
century,
see
M.
Beard,
The
Parthenon,
London
2002.
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the
campaign.
What
happened
created
to
resemble
their
making of lostparts. his means that
n
and re-used tesserae.
the
of
servator ietro Bornia,
who carried out
losseswith newlymade
The crucial question
in the
restoration? twas
are to be seen
and received
the photograph, which
records from lose
January ndMay I889,
the vault
informationwe
have,
The Weir
church (probably
sive structuralfeature
(Fig.
9).
Lambakis's
drawing
of
before
io
8.
Cathedral
ofEufrasius
in
Porec,
University
Park,
PA.
2007.
36.
Lambakis
1889
(as
in
n.
1),
p.
128
(facing).

earthquake: substantial pieces
and
there
are
smaller
scarcely discern
the state
of
monument.37
In fact, ll these records have in common a definite fuzziness about
the gaze
used
forhis
This
photograph
in
trusive
tie
heads
to
hold
the
plaster
in
close
up
he
indication
is
lines
of

of I899)

available
photographs
that
something
dire
befell
the
Pantocrator
at
Daphni
in
As

tesserae
faces,
stylistic arallel seems to
1997,
cat.
293B,
pp.
452-53.
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