Varvara N. Papadopoulou is serving
as director of the 8th Euphorate of Byzantine Antiquities (Regional
Service of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture) with jurisdiction in
the Prefectures of Ioannina and Thesprotia and of the Byzantine Museum of
Ioannina. She completed her graduate studies in Archaeology and History of Art
at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her postgraduate degree in Middle Age Studies from the University of Ioannina
and is currently a Ph. D. candidate at the aforementioned university. Her
dissertation topic is: “Palaeochristian Epirus from the 4th to the 7th centuries. The testimony of sculpture”.
Mrs. Papadopoulou has carried out excavational
research in the cities of Arta, Nicopolis, Nafpaktos, Corfu
and in the wider region of the Prefectures of Arta and Preveza. Restoration has
been conducted on a great number of monuments under her supervision in the
Prefectures of Ioannina, Thesprotia, Arta, Preveza, Aetoloakarnania, as well as
in the islands of Corfu
and Paxoi. She has identified and recorded various monuments throughout
Northwestern Greece as in the region of Argyrokastro in Albania . She
has taken active part in numerous scientific conferences in Greece and abroad and has also
published various articles and studies in books as well as in foreign and Greek
journals.
She has participated in groups
responsible for launching a multitude of research programs concerning the
cultural heritage of the region of Epirus . She was also part of the
funding group of the Byzantine Museum of Ioannina and of the Glyptotheque in
Arta, as well as various exhibitions, such as the Fethiye Mosque exhibition and
the permanent exhibition residing in the Archways of the Castle of Ioannina .
She also took part in the organization and coordination of International
Conferences, such as the 1st International
Symposium for the Despotate of Epirus (1990), the 2nd International Symposium for Nicopolis (2002), the 10th
International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography (2009), etc.
She is an active
member of the Archaeological Society at Athens ,
of the Christian Archaeological Society and of the
Society of Epirotic Studies. She is also an active member of the Administrative
Council of the Foundation for the Ionian and Adriatic Region. She has also
served as vice president of the Foundation “Actia Nicopolis” and is member of the Local Council of the Monuments of
Epirus, of the Council of Settlement and Environment Planning while she was
previously part of the Local Council of Monuments of the Ionian
Islands .
She has taught Byzantine Archaeology
and Iconography at the School for Tourist Guides of the Greek National Tourism
Organization in Kerkyra for a period of six (6) years and History of Art at the
Technological Education Institute of Epirus.
She is married to the
pianist-composer Konstantinos Georgonikos († 2009) and is the mother of one child.
Recently she has also taken up the management
of the 18th Euphorate of Byzantine Antiquities whose jurisdiction includes
the Byzantine and Post Byzantine monuments of the Prefectures of Arta and
Preveza.
A.
Scientific articles – Papers.
1. Archaeological Newsletter Chronicles (1982 – 2004).
2. New evidence for Palaeochristian
Nafpaktos, Α΄ International Archaeological Symposium for Aetoloakarnia, Messolonghi 1991 (paper).
3. New archaeological evidence for
the Byzantine city of Arta .
Minutes of the International Symposium
for the Despotate of Epirus, Arta 1992, 375 – 400 (article and paper).
4. The Monastery of Eleousa, The Monasteries of the Island of Ioannina
– Painting, Ioannina 1993.
5. The Monastery of Metamorfosi, The Monasteries of the Island of Ioannina
– Painting, Ioannina 1993.
6. Late Byzantine Ceramics from
Arta: Some Examples, in collaboration with K. Tsouris, La
Ceramica nel Mondo
Bizantino tra XI e XV secolo e, I suoi Rapporti con l’Italia, Firenze (Conference
Minutes), 1993, 241-261,
(article and paper).
7. Byzantine sculptures –
architectural members of the archaeological collection of Nafpaktos, Nafpaktiaka, Studies Tome Six –
1992-1993, Athens
1994, 179-199 (article and paper).
8. The image of Jesus Pantokrator in
the Monastery of Molyvdoskepastos of Ioannina, Figos, honorary tome for professor Sotitis Dakaris, Ioannina 1994.
9. Murals in Kerkyra from 15th
to 18th century, Byzantine and Post Byzantine Art in Kerkyra
– Monuments, Images, Heirlooms, Culture, Kerkyra 1994, 67 – 70.
10. The wider region of Konitsa
during the Byzantine period, Minutes of
the Α΄ Scientific Symposium:
The county of Konitsa in space and time, Konitsa 1995 (article and paper).
11. Byzantine and Post Byzantine
Monuments of Northern Epirus, Lecture,
Corfu Reading Society, 1997.
12. The Castles of Epirus , Lecture, Panepirotic Confederation of Greece , 1997.
13. The wider region of Amvrakikos
gulf during the Palaeochristian period, Tribute
to N.G.L. Hammond, Society of Macedonic Studies, Thessaloniki 1997 (article
and paper).
14. The Palaeochristian basilica in
Distomo of Viotia, Yearbook of the
Society of Viotic Studies, tome Α΄, issue α΄, Athens 1998, 534 – 546, Plates 1 – 10 (article
and paper).
15. The Monasteries of Lakka Soulio,
Demands and Perspectives, Lecture, Dodonea Estia, Association of Epirots of the
Diaspora, 1998.
16. The Monastery of Agios Nicolaos
Gioumaton or Eleousa. Observations regarding the first phases of Catholicism, Minutes of the International Symposium: The
Monasteries of the Island of Ioannina, 700 years, 1292 – 1992, Ioannina
29-31/051992, Ioannina 1999 (article and paper).
17. Palaeochristian oil lamps and Byzantine Polycandela from the Museum of
the Foundation of Baron Michail Tositsa, Evangelos Averof Collection,
Athens 2000.
18. New data from the excavational
research in Alkisonos basilica, Lecture, Foundation of Actia Nikopolis, Preveza
2000.
19. Byzantine and Post Byzantine
Monuments of Northern
Epirus , Lectures I, Winter –
Spring 1997, Ioannina 2000, 143 – 165 (article and paper).
20. Excavation of the
Palaeochristian Alkisonos basilica, Lecture, Friends of the Byzantine Museum of
Ioannina, 2000.
21. Nicopolis Alkisonos basilica.
Evidence from the recent excavational research, Symposium of the Christian
Archaeological Society, Athens 2000 (paper).
22. The image of prayer of Nicolaos
Tzafouris, Newsletter of the Christian Archaeological Society, Tome 22nd,
Athens 2001 (article and paper).
23. Byzantine Pottery from
Nafpaktos, Nafpaktiaka Tome 12 (1998 –
1998), Athens 2001 (article and paper).
24. Nicopolis. The excavation of the
Palaeochristian Alkisonos basilica: 1998 – 1999, Scientific Symposium, Medieval Epirus , Ioannina 2001
(articleand paper).
25. “La Sapienza ”, in: L’ Adriatico dalla
Tarda Antichità’ all’ età Carolingia:atti de convegno di studio, Brescia 11-13 Οttobre 2001
(paper).
26. Georgios Nomikos, A Cretan
painter from the 17th century, Newsletter of the Christian
Archaeological Society, Tome 23rd, Athens 2002 (paper and article).
27. The wanderings of a saint in
Akarnania. Agios Varvaros, Β΄ International Historic and
Archaeological Conference for Aetoloakarnania, Agrinio 2002 (in collaboration
with professor Ath. Aggelou).
28. New excavational finds from
Nicopolis, Lecture in the context of the seminar about Byzantine Epirus of the
University of Athens/School of Philosophy/Department of Archaeology and History
of Art, 2002.
29. Byzantine Arta, Lecture in the
context of the seminar about Byzantine Epirus of the University of
Athens/School of Philosophy/Department of Archaeology and History of Art, 2002.
30. Bronze Lamps and Polycandela of the Averof collection in the Baron
Tositsas foundation museum, 1st International study congress of
antique Lighting, Nyon 2003. (article and
paper).
31. Monastery of Kato Panaghia Arta,
Icon Collection, Epirotic Chronicles, Tome 37, Ioannina 2003.
32. Urania of the temple of Agios Athanasios
in Preveza, Tribute to Miltos Garidis,
Ioannina 2003 (article and paper).
33. Tombstone painting in the tample of Aghia
Parhigoritissa in Arta, Newsletter of the Christian Archaeology Society, Tome
25th, Athens 2004 (article and paper).
34. Clay icon in the temple of Aghios Vasilios in Arta, Lemma in the
catalogue of the exhibition Faith and Power, New York 2004.
35. The Byzantine Monastery of
Panaghia Perivleptos, Contribution to the monumental topography of Byzantine
Arta, Honorary tome to G. Galavaris, Newsletter of the Christian Archaeological
Society, Tome 26th, Athens 2005 (article and paper).
36. Dual-side painted icon of the 14th
century in the Monastery of Ghiromeri, Thesprotia, Byzantine 25, Thessaloniki 2005.
37. Goldsmiths and Silversmiths from
Epirus, Contribution to the Study of Epirotic Silversmithing, Epirotic Chronicles, Tome 39, Ioannina
2005.
38. The Byzantine Templar of
Vlacherna, Symposium of the Christian
Archaeological Society, Athens 2005 (paper).
39. Late Byzantine plaster
sculptures, Archaeological Newsletter,
Studies 56, Athens 2006.
40. Byzantine marble icon of
Panaghia in Archimandrio of Ioannina, Honorary
tome to professor Nikos Nikonanos, Thessaloniki 2006.
41. Stories of alimentation from the Byzantine and Post Byzantine Epirus ,
brochure editor, Ioannina 2006.
42. Alkisonos basilica – The
excavational research of recent years, Minutes
of the Second International Symposium for Nicopolis, 11 – 15 September 2002,
Preveza 2007, 399 – 420 (article and paper).
43. Sculpted architectural members
of the Alkisonos Β΄ basilica, Observations and
Conclusions, Minutes of the Second
International Symposium for Nicopolis, 11 – 15 September 2002, Preveza
2007, 421 – 439 (article and paper).
44. Arta. The Byzantine murals of
the Monastery of Kato Panaghia, Byzantine,
Tome 27th, Thessaloniki 2007.
45. The excavation of the
Palaeochristian basilica in Stefani, Preveza, Minutes of the First Archaeological Conference of South and Western
Greece, 2007 (article and paper).
46. The Byzantine Templar of the
temple of Aghia Theodora in Arta, Newsletter of the Christian Archaeological
Society, Athens 2008 (article and paper).
47. The Red Church
in Bulgareli, Arta, Epirotic Chronicles,
Tome 42, Ioannina 2008.
48. Lead vials of myrhh (koutrouvia)
from Epirus ,
Epirotic Chronicles, Tome 42,
Ioannina 2008.
49. The Palaeochristian Nafpaktos, 17th Symposium of the Christian
Archaeological Society, Athens
(paper).
50. Lemma (No 4, 5, 7, 11) in the
catalogue of the exhibition: The
Circumnavigation of Icons, Kerkyra 14th – 18th
century, Kerkyra 1994.
51. Lemma: The Castle
of Ioannina , the “tower” of Thomas,
the castle of Rogon ,
etc in: Secular Middle Age Architecture
in the Balkans, 1300 – 1500 and its preservation, Thessaloniki 1997.
52. Lemma: “Arta” and “Ioannina” in:
Dictionary of Act, MacMillan Publ.
B.
Monographs.
1. Byzantine Arta and its Monuments, Published by the Fund of
Arcahaeological Resources, Athens 2002.
2. Trek in Arta, published by the Municipality of Arta ,
Arta 2002.
3. The Monasteries of the Island
of Ioannina , Ioannina
2004.
4. Byzantine and Post Byzantine Monuments of Molyvdoskepastos,
Ioannina 2006, in
collaboration with A. Karamberidi.
5. Icons of Arta, Arta 2008, in collaboration with A. Tsiara.
6. The Byzantine Monuments of Epirus, Ioannina 2008 (editing and
text).
7. Ioannina. From the Byzantine Castle to the Ottoman City, Ioannina
2009 (editing).
8. Monuments of the City of Ioannina, Ioannina 2009 (editing and
text).
9. The Castle of Ioannina, Ioannina 2009 (editing and text).
C.
Guides.
1. The Byzantine Monastery of Aghios Dimitrios in Kipseli, Preveza, in
collaboration with professor P. Vokotopoulos, Preveza 2007.
D.
Educational Programs.
2. Educational program: The Castle of Ioannina (under
publication).