1.1 View of Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, from the south. Photo: Robert G. Ousterhout 3
1.2 Plan of Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Plan: Robert G. Ousterhout 7
3.1 Plan of the narthexes with indications of the themes. Drawing: Georgios Fousteris 34
3.2 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, esonarthex: Annunciation to the Virgin at the Well. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 43
3.3 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, esonarthex: Presentation of Mary in the Temple. Photo: Nektarios Zarras 45
3.4 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, esonarthex: The Betrothal of Mary and Joseph. Photo: Nektarios Zarras 48
3.5 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: Christ Pantokrator. Photo: Robert G. Ousterhout 52
3.6 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: Joseph Dreaming and The Journey to Bethlehem. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 54
3.7 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: The Magi’s Journey and The Magi meet with Herod. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 56
3.8 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: The Wedding at Cana. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 57
3.9 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: The Feeding of the Five Thousand. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 57
3.10 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: The Miracle at Cana and The Slaying of the Calf. Photo: Nektarios Zarras 58
3.11 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: Joseph Dreaming and The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 59
3.12 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex: The Journey to Jerusalem. Photo: Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C. 60
4.1 General view of the lateral chapel of Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 76
4.2 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, lateral chapel, eastern domical vault: Last Judgement. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 77
4.3 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, lateral chapel, apse: The Anastasis. Photo: Paul A. Underwood, The Kariye Djami, vol. 3 (New York, 1966) pl. 341 79
4.4 British Library, London, Codex Egerton 1139 (The Queen Melisende Psalter), fol. 9v: The Anastasis. Photo: Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, eds., The Glory of Byzantium. Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843–1261, exh. cat. (New York, 1997), p. 393 81
4.5 Church of the Resurrection, Abu Ghosh (Jerusalem District, Israel), apse: The Anastasis. Photo: photographic archive of Geoffrey Meyer-Fernandez 82
4.6 St Phocas Church, Amioun (northern Lebanon), apse: The Anastasis. Photo: photographic archive of Mahmoud Zibawi 83
4.7 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, lateral chapel, apse: Abel, detail from The Anastasis. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 84
4.8 Church of the Holy Apostles, Thessaloniki, eastern part of northern arc: Abel, detail from The Anastasis. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 88
4.9 Church of Protaton, Karyes (Mount Athos), eastern part of northern arc: Abel, detail from The Anastasis. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 89
4.10 Church of the Resurrection, Abu Ghosh (Jerusalem District, Israel), apse: Abel, detail from The Anastasis. Photo: photographic archive of Geoffrey Meyer-Fernandez 90
4.11 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, lateral chapel, apse, excavated tomb. Photo: Robert G. Ousterhout, The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul (Washington, D.C., 1987), fig. 90 93
4.12 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, diakonikon, dome. Photo: Athanasios Semoglou 95
5.1 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, exonarthex, tomb G: Aristocratic Layman Standing before the Virgin and Child Enthroned, mural painting, c.1450. Photo: Michele Bacci 101
5.2 Santa Maria Novella, Florence: Funerary Portrait of Patriarch Joseph II, mural painting, 1451. Photo: Michele Bacci 111
5.3 Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul: Funerary Group Portrait, mural painting, second quarter of the 15th century. Photo: Michele Bacci 115
5.4 Fragment of a Velvet Chasuble with ‘Cammino’ Ornaments, Venice, c.1450. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Photo: Paolo Peri, “8. Parte di pianeta di velluto,” in Fili d’oro e dipinti di seta. Velluti e ricami tra Gotico e Rinascimento, ed. Laura Dal Prà, Marina Carmignani, and Paolo Peri (Trento, 2019), p. 196 118
5.5 Confraternity of All Saints, Korčula (Croatia): A Young Lady Standing before the Virgin and Child Enthroned, icon, c.1360–70. Photo: Michele Bacci 121
5.6 Sveti Kliment/Panagia Peribleptos, Ohrid (North Macedonia), arcosolium: The Governor of Ohrid, Ostoja Rajaković, Standing before the Virgin and Child Enthroned, mural painting, 1379. Photo: Michele Bacci 122
5.7 Funerary Icon of Ioannes Asan, c.1350–54. Formerly in Megaspilaion Monastery, Kalavryta (Achaea, Greece); destroyed in 1934. Photo: Titos Papamastorakis, “Ioannes ‘Redolent of Perfume’ and His Icon in the Mega Spelaion Monastery,” Zograf 26 (1997), fig. 1 123
5.8 Jan van Eyck, Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, oil on panel, c.1435. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: RMN-Grand Palais, musée du Louvre/Gérard Blot 125
6.1 View of Kariye Camii, Istanbul, from the west, end of the 19th century. Photo: Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection 136
6.2 Ottoman additions to the apse of the former church, 1937. Photo: Oğuz Topoğlu 137
6.3 View of the urban fabric around Kariye Camii, Istanbul, end of the 19th century. Photo: Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection 138
6.4 Jacques Pervititch’s insurance map, showing the urban fabric around Kariye Camii, Istanbul, 1929. Photo: Jacques Pervititch, Sigorta Haritalarında İstanbul, repr. in Istanbul in the Insurance Maps of Jacques Pervititch, ed. Zülal Kılıç, (Istanbul, 2000), p. 175 139
6.5 Tomb of Abû Said al-Hudrî, adjacent to Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: M. Baha Tanman 143
6.6 Northwest section of the enclosure wall, adjacent to Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: M. Baha Tanman 143
6.7 Inscriptions above the rightmost window of the enclosure wall adjacent to Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: M. Baha Tanman 144
6.8 Central window of the enclosure wall adjacent to Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: M. Baha Tanman 145
6.9 Inscription above the leftmost window of the enclosure wall adjacent to Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: M. Baha Tanman 145
6.10 Ritual of the Halveti Order called “devran”. Ignatius Mouradgea D’Ohsson, Tableau Général de l’Empire Othoman, divisé en deux parties, dont l’une comprend la Législation Mahométane; l’autre l’Histoire de l’Empire Othomane, 3 vols (Paris, 1790) 147
7.1 Dimitri Ismailovitch in front of his copy of the Virgin of the Deesis mosaic located in the esonarthex of Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, 1926. Photo: Moscow, Archives Viktor Lazarev, repr. in Gerold Vzdornov, “Russkie khudozhniki i vizantijskoe iskusstvo v Konstantinopole“ [Russian Artists and Byzantine Art in Constantinople], Tvorchestvo [Creation] (1992), p. 33 156
7.2 Dimitri Ismailovitch, St Demetrius, copy of the fresco in Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard by the artist, c.1926. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 158
7.3 Dimitri Ismailovitch, Isaiah’s Prophecy: The Angel Drives the Assyrians from Jerusalem, copy of the fresco in Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard by the artist, c.1926. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 159
7.4 Dimitri Ismailovitch, Portrait of a Turk, oil on canvas glued on wood, 1920s. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 161
7.5 Alexis Gritchenko, Fragment of a Mosaic in the Kariye (Chora) Mosque, watercolour and pencil on paper, June 1920. Collection of Gizella Lopusanszky and Alexander Demko, New York 166
7.6 Dimitri Ismailovitch, Untitled [Landscape of Constantinople], watercolour and pencil on paper, 1920s. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 167
7.7 Dimitri Ismailovitch, Untitled [Landscape of Constantinople], watercolour and pencil on paper, 1920s. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 168
7.8 Dimitri Ismailovitch, Untitled [Study for a Tapestry], oil on canvas, 1920s. Collection of Eduardo and Leonardo Mendes Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro 172
8.1 Mar Elyas Monastery (West Bank), 1 August 1984. Photo: Glenn Bowman 183
8.2 Merchants outside Mar Elyas Monastery (West Bank), 1 August 1984. Photo: Glenn Bowman 183
8.3 ‘Chaining’ in front of the icon of St George, Mar Elyas Monastery (West Bank), 1 August 1984. Photo: Glenn Bowman 184
8.4 Feast Day outside the monastery of St George, al-Khadr (West Bank), 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 188
8.5 Locals purchasing candles outside the chapel of St George, al-Khadr (West Bank), 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 189
8.6 In front of the iconostasis, chapel of St George, al-Khadr (West Bank), 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 190
8.7 Village Muslim being blessed by Orthodox priest, chapel of St George, al-Khadr (West Bank), 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 191
8.8 Christian family ‘chaining’, chapel of St George, al-Khadr (West Bank), 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 192
8.9 al-Khadr residents evaluating the side chapel, 5 May 2011. Photo: Glenn Bowman 192
8.10 Bir es-Sayeda from the central market of Beit Sahour (West Bank), 1988. Photo: Glenn Bowman 194
8.11 Drawing water from the ‘well’, Beit Sahour (West Bank), 1988. Photo: Glenn Bowman 195
8.12 View of the southern face of Sveti Nikola/Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 5 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 199
8.13 Remounting the painting of Ali with his sword Zulfiqar, Sveti Nikola/Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 7 May 2006. Note the displaced, cloth-covered ‘tomb’ of St Nicholas/Hidr Bābā at bottom left. Photo: Glenn Bowman 201
8.14 Sufi/Shia images amidst the Christian icons in the sanctuary, Sveti Nikola/ Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 5 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 202
8.15 A delegation from the Kičevo municipality praying to the original site of Hidr Bābā’s turbe, Sveti Nikola/Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 6 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 203
8.16 Auctioning of offerings, Sveti Nikola/Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 6 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 204
8.17 Sufis praying towards the iconostasis, Sveti Nikola/Hidr Bābā, Makedonski Brod (southwestern Macedonia), 7 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 205
8.18 Husamedin Paša Mosque/St Elijah’s Church, Štip (eastern Macedonia), 4 May 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 207
8.19 Ashura meal, Husamedin Paša Mosque/St Elijah’s Church, Štip (eastern Macedonia), 10 February 2006. Photo: Elizabeta Koneska 209
8.20 Second lock on the door of Husamedin Paša Mosque/St Elijah’s Church, Štip (eastern Macedonia), 1 August 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 210
8.21 Christians outside the locked church on the feast of the prophet Elijah, Husamedin Paša Mosque/St Elijah’s Church, Štip (eastern Macedonia), 2 August 2006. Photo: Glenn Bowman 211
8.22 Interior of the cathedral of St Sophia, Nicosia (Cyprus), 8 November 2009. Photo: Glenn Bowman 213
8.23 View of the naos looking eastward, Chora Church/Kariye Camii, Istanbul. Photo: Robert G. Ousterhout, The Art of the Kariye Camii (London, 2002), p. 13 216