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Professional biography

BA, Diploma, MA, Art History (Courtauld Institute of Art), Ph.D, Byzantine Art (University of Birmingham)

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. She was the Chair of the Publication Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (SPBS) between 2018 and 2024.

Research interests

Byzantine icons and iconography lie at the core of Angeliki's research interests. More specifically, her research focuses on all aspects of artistic production on Venetian Crete (1211-1669) within the social context of cross-cultural interaction between the Byzantine East and the (mainly Italian) West. While Byzantine art is associated predominantly with imperial and aristocratic commissions, Angeliki's research provides a 'voice' for the lower working classes, their representation in the Medieval and Renaissance markets, their religious concerns regarding the afterlife, and the engagement of their senses with the visuality of their commissions.

Research Projects

Angeliki and Miljana in the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum in Belgrade with an icon of the Virgin and Child with Saint Nicholas and young Saint John the Baptist, 15th century (tempera on wood with gold leaf; 30.3 x 22.2 x 0.4 cm)

Angeliki is currently working on a research project with Dr Miljana Matić, curator of icons in the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum in Belgrade, aiming at producing a complete catalogue of the museum's Greek icons. Some of the icons were brought to the Museum from the Fruška Gora Monasteries after World War II, others originated from the Chapel of Saint Sava in Constantinople and a number were donated to the Museum by private individuals, but in their majority, these icons remain unpublished. While Angeliki and Miljana continue working towards the production of the catalogue’s first draft, they have accepted an invitation by the prestigious Serbian periodical Zograf to publish one of the icons in the Museum’s collection, a Madre della Consolazione. This particular icon is one of the best surviving examples of the post-Byzantine type of the Virgin and Child which features among Angeliki’s and Miljana’s main research interests; they are both honoured and delighted with this opportunity to showcase their research project and forthcoming catalogue. Angeliki and Miljana are grateful to the Museum's Director, priest Dr Vladimir Radovanović, and to the Museum’s staff for their generous assistance, as well as to The Open University for its generous financial support and for facilitating Angeliki’s visits to Belgrade so she can work together with Miljana on the icons in situ.

Teaching interests

Angeliki was Director of Teaching (2012-2016) and Qualification Lead (2016-2020) for the department of Art History and currently serves as Employability Lead for the Scool of Arts and Humanities.

Teaching contributions in art history modules (both in production and presentation) include: The Art History Residential School (AXR272); Art and Visual Culture (A226); Renaissance Art Reconsidered (AA315); and The MA in Art History (A843 & A844).

She also taught the following modules in presentation: The Arts Past and Present (AA100); Art and its Histories (A216); Understanding Global Heritage (AD281); Art, Society and Religion in Siena, Florence and Padua 1280-1400 (A354); and Display and Devotion. Religious Painting in Italy 1300-1500 (A424).

Research groups

Name	Type	Parent Unit
Byzantine Research Group	Group	Faculty of Arts

Publications

Journal articles

Post-Byzantine Cretan Icon Painting: Demand and Supply Revisited (2023-08)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Arts, 12, Article 139(4)

The five senses in Hell (2020)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Material religion, 16(3) (pp. 364-367)

Sight and the Byzantine Icon (2018-06-14)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Body and Religion, 2(1) (pp. 46-67)

The Noli me Tangere: study and conservation of a Cretan icon (2011)
Harisson, Lynne; Ambers, Janet; Stacey, Rebecca; Cartwright, Caroline and Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, 5 (pp. 25-38)

A Winged Saint John the Baptist icon in the British Museum (2003-11)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Apollo, CLVIII(500) (pp. 19-24)

The Madre della Consolazione icon in the British Museum: Post-Byzantine Painting, Painters, and Society on Crete (2003)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 53 (pp. 239-257)

Authored books

Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean. Volume 2. A Catalogue of the Cretan Material (2020-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Duits, Rembrandt
Hell in the Byzantine World. A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
ISBN : 9781108474160 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge

The church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana: art and society on fourteenth-century Venetian-dominated Crete (2006-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
ISBN : 1904597319 | Publisher : Pindar Press | Published : London, UK

Book chapters

Maniera Greca and Renaissance Europe: More than Meets the Eye (2023)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Brubaker, Leslie; Darley, Rebecca and Reynolds, Reynolds eds. Global Byzantium: Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (pp. 155-171)
ISBN : 9780367260149 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London and New York

Hell on Crete (2020-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed. Hell in the Byzantine World. A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean (pp. 117-190)
ISBN : 9781108474153 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge

Introduction (2020-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Panou, Eirini
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed. Hell in the Byzantine World. A History of Art and Religion in the Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean Volume 1: Essays (pp. 1-18)
ISBN : 9781108474153 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge

Domenikos Theotokopoulos and Ancient Greek Art (2019-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Assimakopoulou, Ianthi ed. Echoes of Antiquity in the Oeuvre of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (pp. 15-36)
ISBN : 9789608962750 | Publisher : Municipality of Heraklion | Published : Heraklion

Sight and the Byzantine Icon (2018-09-04)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Harvey, Graham and Hughes, Jessica eds. Sensual Religion. Religion and the Five Senses (pp. 109-130)
ISBN : 9781781794159 | Publisher : Equinox Publishingh Ltd | Published : Sheffield

Introduction (2018-03-27)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed. Cross-Cultural interaction between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669. Whose Mediterranean is it anyway?. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (22) (pp. 1-18)
ISBN : 978-0-8153-7267-7 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

Regional Byzantine Monumental Art from Venetian Crete (2013-03)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Duits, Rembrandt eds. Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe (pp. 61-99)
ISBN : 978-1-4094-2038 -5 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham

The Noli Me Tangere icon at the British Museum: vision, message and reality (2011-02)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki; Harrison, Lynne and Ambers, Janet
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed. Images of the Byzantine World: Visions, Messages and Meanings: Studies presented to Leslie Brubaker (pp. 185-214)
ISBN : 978-1-4094-0776-8 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham, UK

Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes vesrus icons, and Crete in the middle (2010)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: James, Liz ed. A Companium to Byzantium
ISBN : 9781405126540 | Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell | Published : Oxford, UK

Audiences and markets for Cretan icons (2007)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Woods, Kim W; Richardson, Carol M and Lymberopoulou, Angeliki eds. Viewing Renaissance Art (pp. 171-208)
ISBN : 9780300123432 | Publisher : Yale University Press | Published : London

The painter Angelos and post-Byzantine Art (2007)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In: Richardson, Carol M ed. Locating Renaissance Art (pp. 175-212)
ISBN : 9780300121889 | Publisher : Yale University Press | Published : London

Edited books

Hell in the Byzantine World. A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean. Volume 1 Essays (2020-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed.
Hell in the Byzantine World A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
ISBN : 9781108474153 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge

Cross-Cultural Interaction between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669. Whose Mediterranean is it anyway? (2018-03-27)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed.
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
ISBN : 978-0-8153-7267-7 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe (2013-03)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Rembrandt, Duits eds.
ISBN : 978-1-4094-2038 -5 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham

Art and Visual Culture: A Reader (2012-09)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki; Bracewell-Homer, Pamela and Robinson, Joel eds.
ISBN : 9781849760485 | Publisher : Tate | Published : London

Images of the Byzantine World: Visions, Messages and Meanings: Studies Presented to Leslie Brubaker (2011-02)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ed.
ISBN : 978-1-4094-0776-8 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Farnham, UK

Viewing Renaissance Art (2007)
Woods, Kim W.; Richardson, Carol M. and Lymberopoulou, Angeliki eds.
ISBN : 300123434 | Publisher : Yale University Press

Conference items

Representations of Donors in Monumental Art of Venetian Crete (2020-10-27)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : Internationalen Workshops an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (14-15 Feb 2013, Vienna) (pp. 209-218)

‘…κέ παντός του λαου τοῡ χορίου τ(ης) Μάζας…’ Communal Patronage of Church Decoration in Rural Venetian Crete (2020-10-15)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : The Art of the Poor (14-15 Jun 2018, London) (pp. 53-63)

Palaiologan art from regional Crete: Artistic decline or social progress? (2019)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : Reconsidering the Concept of Decline and the Arts of the Palaiologan Era (24-25 Feb 2017, University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern greek Studies) (pp. 132-155)

The Fogg Triptych: Testimony of a case study to the society and artistic production of Venetian Crete (2018-03-27)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : 48th Byzantine Conference (28-30 Mar 2015, Milton Keynes) (pp. 59-73)

'El Greco: A Cretan painter?' (2015)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : El Greco Simposio Internacional (21-24 May 2014, Madrid) (pp. 21-35)

Fourteenth-century provincial Cretan church decoration: the case of the painter Pagomenos and his clientele (2010)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : Towards Rewriting? New Approaches to Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Krakow Symposium on Byzantine Art and Archaeology (8-10 Sep 2008, Krakow, Poland)

'Fish on a Dish' and its Table Companions in fourteenth-century Wall-Paintings on Venetian-dominated Crete (2007-12)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : 37th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (29-31 Mar 2003, Birmingham, UK)

'Pro anima mea', but do not touch my icons: provisions for personal icons in wills from Venetian-dominated Crete (2007)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
In : Strangers. Charity in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (May 2006, Kings College London) (pp. 71-89)

Other

The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game (2023-06-21)
Marsden, Richard and Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Higher Education Policy Institute

Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World (2022-07-26)
Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki.

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