Extraordinary Themes in the Wall Paintings of Mustafapaşa (Sinasos) and the Painter Georgios Iordanidis

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The town of Sinasos, in the region of Cappadocia, is today called Mustafapaşa, and it was a town with three quarters of its resident population Greeks in the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century, many of the people of Sinasos who went to work in neighboring cities and particularly in Istanbul became wealthy, and built flamboyant houses in their town. Wall paintings that differ from examples in other regions of the Empire, in terms of the themes that were depicted, were painted on the walls of the most of these houses. Most of these paintings have the painter s signature, as well as a Hellenistic story referring to Apelles; while there is a painting on the theme of “the Cycle of Life by the 19^th century French painter Pierre Auguste Cote, earlier examples of which can be found in 17^th century manuscript depictions. This article is concerned with the social and cultural background of these paintings, and with the artist, Georgias Iordanidis.

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Apelles , Wall painting , Cappadocia , Mustafapaşa (Sinasos) , Iordanidis

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities