Angeliki Lymberopoulou joined the Open University in April 2004 from the National Gallery in London, where she worked across the collections as a Dossiers Assistant. She has also taught Modern Greek language and culture at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Byzantine art and architecture at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests focus on Venetian-dominated Crete (1211-1669), particularly the artistic production (i.e. icons and wall paintings), the demand (i.e. market), its social context (i.e. the artists and their hybrid clientele), and the cross-cultural influences between Byzantine East and (mainly Italian) West. She also examines late – Palaiologan – Byzantine art (1261-1453) produced in the major artistic centres during the last phase of the empire – Constantinople, Thessaloniki and Mystras. Teaching contributions for the Open University include AA315 Renaissance Art Reconsidered, looking at post-Byzantine art and audiences for Cretan icons.
Her current research interests include the heritage of Byzantine art in the Renaissance period. She is also collaborating with Dr Vasiliki Tsamakda on the representations of hell on Cretan frescoes between the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries.
Research proposals from students interested in art production (mainly frescoes and icons), and the social and cultural milieu of Venetian-dominated Crete (1211-1669) are welcome. See the Byzantine Research Group website for further details.
Contact A.Lymberopoulou@open.ac.uk
The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-dominated Crete, Pindar Press, London 2006.
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Viewing Renaissance Art, K.W. Woods, C.M. Richardson and A. Lymberopoulou (eds), Yale University Press in Association with the Open University, 2007.
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‘The Painter Angelos and Post-Byzantine’, in C.M. Richardson (ed.), Locating Renaissance Art, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2007, 174-210.
‘Audiences and Markets for Cretan Icons’, in C.M. Richardson, K.W. Woods, A. Lymberopoulou (eds), Viewing Renaissance Art, Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2007, 171-206.
Entries in C.M. Richardson, K.W. Woods, M.W. Franklin, (eds), Renaissance Art Reconsidered. An Anthology of Primary Sources, Blackwell Publishing for the Open University, 2007, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 370, 371, 373, 374, 375, 376.
‘ “Pro anima mea”, but do not touch my icons: Provisions for private icons in wills from Venetian-dominated Crete’, in D. Stathakopoulos (ed.), The Kindness of Strangers. Charity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, Occasional Publications, 2007, 71-89.
‘“Fish on a Dish” and its Table Companions in Fourteenth-Century Wall Paintings on Venetian-dominated Crete’, in L. Brubaker and K. Linardou (eds), Eat, drink, and be merry (Luke 12:19). Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 13, Ashgate, Variorum, Aldershot, 2007, pp. 223-232.
‘The Madre della Consolazione icon in the British Museum: Post-Byzantine Painting, Painters and Society on Crete’, Jahrbuch der Ősterreichischen Byzantinistik, 53, 2003, 239-255.
‘A Winged Saint John the Baptist in the British Museum’, Apollo, CLVIII, 50, November 2003, 19-24.
‘Late and Post-Byzantine art under Venetian Rule: Frescoes versus Icons and Crete in the middle', in L. James (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Byzantium, Oxford, 2010, 351-370.
‘Fourteenth-century provincial Cretan church decoration: the case of the painter Pagomenos and his clientele’, in P.L. Grotowski and S. Skrzyniarz (eds), Towards Rewriting ? New Approaches to Byzantine Art and Archaeology , Krakow Symposium on Byzantine Art and Archaeology, 8-10 September 2008.
‘A Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum’, forthcoming proceedings of the 10th International Kretologikon Congress, Chania, 1-8 October, 2006 (in Greek).
Damned in Hell in Venetian-dominated Cretan Frescoes (13th-17th centuries), in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Vasiliki Tsamakda of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, to be published as a monograph.
Cultural interactions: the heritage of Byzantine art in the Renaissance period, a volume discussing the cultural and artistic interaction between Byzantine art and western Europe edited by A. Lymberopoulou and R. Duits including contributions by H. Bloemsma, D. Newall, L. Rodley and K.W. Woods.
‘A rare scene from the life of Saint John the Baptist with Christ’ to be submitted for publication to Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.
See also Open Research Online for further details of Angeliki Lymberopoulou’s research publications.
