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Portrait of Papa Demetrios, from Mount Athos

Watercolour
1855 (Painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mount Athos is a mountain on a peninsula in northern Greece, but is only accessible by sea. In modern Greece it is now known as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. There are 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries there, and the first monks arrived in the 4th Century. It was famous [or notorious] for not permitting women to live there or even visit. The Ottoman Sultans conquered this part of northern Greece in the 15th century, and kept control until 1912. They permitted the Monks to live as they had always done, provided they paid their taxes.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePortrait of Papa Demetrios, from Mount Athos
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Brief description
Portrait of Papa Demetrios, from Mount Athos, 1855. Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas, known as Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi
Physical description
Watercolour of a priest in black robes
Dimensions
  • Sight size height: 34.9cm
  • Sight size width: 25.4cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Papà Demetrios Monte Atos. 1855
Object history
This is one of a group of 31 portraits, acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1900. They were once assembled in an album, but whether by Preziosi himself, or a member of his family, or subsequently, is not known.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Mount Athos is a mountain on a peninsula in northern Greece, but is only accessible by sea. In modern Greece it is now known as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. There are 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries there, and the first monks arrived in the 4th Century. It was famous [or notorious] for not permitting women to live there or even visit. The Ottoman Sultans conquered this part of northern Greece in the 15th century, and kept control until 1912. They permitted the Monks to live as they had always done, provided they paid their taxes.
Bibliographic reference
The People and Places of Constantinople. Watercolours by Amadeo, Count Preziosi Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings 1985
Collection
Accession number
D.42-1900

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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