VISUAL ARTS & MUSEUMS
Visit the Byzantine Fresco Chapel
January 1, 2007-March 4, 2012
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The Byzantine Fresco Chapel was opened in February 1997. Intimate in scale (4,000 square feet), the Chapel is the repository in the United States for the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the entire western hemisphere.
These masterworks from the 13th century -- a dome and an apse -- were ripped and stolen out of a chapel near Lysi in the Turkish occupied section of Cyprus in the 1980's, cut into pieces, and smuggled off the island by thieves prepared to sell them piece by piece.
The fresco fragments were rescued from the thieves by The Menil Foundation with the knowledge and approval of the Church of Cyprus, the rightful owner of the frescoes.
The Menil Foundation then funded a painstaking two-year restoration of the paintings.
Numerous private donors helped fund the construction of the Chapel, which combines rough stone, opaque glass, and rich woods, to extraordinarily spiritual effect.
The Church of Cyprus is allowing a long-term loan of the frescoes in the new building designed especially for them by architect Francois de Menil.
Pictured: The Christ Pantokrator fresco and laminated glass drum, showing the delicate relationship between the ancient fresco and the contemporary glass frame.
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4011 Yupon at Branard
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Info Phone: 713-521-3990
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January 1, 2007-March 4, 2012Times:
Open 11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Wednesdays through SundaysThe Menil Collection has revealed that March 4, 2012 will be the final day to see its Byzantine frescoes, which will be returned to Cyprus after a 28-year loan to the museum.
On Sunday, March 4, 2012, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel will be de-consecrated in a special public ceremony. See the Menil Collection website for details on additional programing.
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