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Newly Discovered Epitaphios Designed by Christopher Zefarovic
Newly Discovered Epitaphios Designed by Christopher Zefarovic
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An article attributing a previously unrecorded epitaphios (Orthodox Good Friday funeral shroud), embroidered in Vienna around 1780, to the designs of the Serbian artist Christopher Zefarovic (d. 1753). It reviews his career as fresco painter, engraver and embroidery designer, compares his three accepted epitaphioi (Budapest, Olympiotice, Bucharest) with earlier Byzantine and Serbo-Byzantine examples by Despoineta and Kasymbouri, and analyzes iconography, inscriptions and stitching (silk, couched metal thread, long-and-short stitch). Fourteen plates illustrate the epitaphioi, a curtain, an antimension, and related works, and footnotes cite the scholarship.

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