Byzantine Museum of Kastoria

The Byzantine Museum of Kastoria is a museum in Kastoria in Greece, committed to non secular artwork from the vicinity's late Byzantine and put up-Byzantine periods. The museum stands at the very best point of the city, in Dexamenis Square Platia Dexamenis, subsequent to the Xenia Hotel. It has been open due to the fact that 1989. It has a set of a few 700 icons from the town’s 75 Byzantine and publish-Byzantine churches, and almost they all were restored and wiped clean by the museum’s conservators. Of this big collection, 35 icons are on everlasting display. You can come here and explore this place.

They date to the twelfth to seventeenth centuries and are divided into six organizations on the idea of their age and the atelier which produced them. The maximum important icons are of: Elijah 12th century in the intense Comnenian fashion; St Nicholas on a silver ground and surrounded by ten scenes from his existence; Christ Pantocrator 14th century; Saints Cosmas and Damian; the Panagia Glykofiloussa and the Deposition from the Cross late 14th century; the Man of Sorrows an altar door 15th century bearing an outline of the Annunciation and busts of David and Solomon on the pinnacle.