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Byzantine Fresco Chapel : ウィキペディア英語版 | Byzantine Fresco Chapel
The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas, and from February 1997 to February 2012 it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the entire western hemisphere. The Byzantine frescoes had been taken from the church of St. Evphemianos in Lysi, Cyprus in the 1980s. In September 2011 the Collection announced that the frescos would be permanently (returned to Cyprus ) in February 2012, following the conclusion of a long-term loan agreement with the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus. On March 4, 2012, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel closed but a series of site-specific projects is planned. The eponymous works had been presented at the museum by agreement with the Church of Cyprus, their owners, but the Church decided not to extend the loan further. They will not return to their original home as Lysi is now in Northern Cyprus, but will be displayed at the Byzantine Museum in Nicosia.〔(Houston Culturemap ), accessed September 26, 2011〕 ==History== The chapel was opened in February 1997 and displayed masterworks from the 13th century—a dome with Christ Pantocrator and an apse depicting the Virgin Mary the Panayia. These frescoes had been stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish-occupied section of Cyprus in the 1980s, cut into 38 pieces, and shipped to Germany by thieves prepared to sell them in the arts black-market.〔Slessor, Christine. Out of this world – Chapel Museum, Houston, Texas – Glass and Transparency. ''The Architectural Review''. May, 1998.〕 The 38 fresco fragments were bought from the thieves by the Houston-based Menil Foundation on behalf of the Church of Cyprus, the rightful owner of the frescoes. The Menil Foundation then funded a careful restoration of the paintings.〔(Menil Collection website )〕 These intact frescoes were unique in the western hemisphere.〔
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