Onufri Iconographic Museum

National Iconographic Museum "Onufri"
Muzeu Kombëtar Ikonografik "Onufri"
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Established	27 February 1986
Location	Berat, Albania
Type	Art museum
Key holdings	Medieval Period
Collections	Byzantine art
Collection size	173 objects
Website	Official website

The National Iconographic Museum "Onufri" Albanian: Muzeu Kombëtar Ikonografik "Onufri") is an Albanian national museum dedicated to Byzantine art and iconography in Berat, Albania. The museum is located inside the Church of the Dormition of St Mary in the castle quarter Berat.^[2] The museum was named to honor Onufri, an Albanian painting Headmaster of the 16th century.

The museum features on display 173 objects chosen from a found of 1500 objects belonging to the found of Albanian Churches and Monasteries as well as to Berat.

History

Collection

The collection of the museum consists of 176 objects, 106 of which are icons and 67 are liturgical objects, and belong to the iconographic Albanian painters who created in the 14th - 20th centuries:

Onufri
Nikola (Onufri’s son)
Onouphrios Cypriotes
David Selenica
Kostandin Shpataraku
Çetiri’s (or Katro) tribe (Gjergj, Nikolla, Johani, Naumi, Gjergji junior)
Many other anonymous painters.^[3]^[4]

Gallery

Mary and Child. Icon by Onufri (Onuphrios). 16th century.
Icon by Onufri. Cathedral of Berat.
Icon of the Apostle Saint Peter, painted by Nikolla, son of Onufri, second half of the 16th century. Today Onufri-Museum Berat.
The Roman Emperor Constantine I with his mother Helena of Constantinople, who has found the relic of the holy cross in Jerusalem. Icon painted by Nikolla, son of Onufri, in the St. Mary of Blachernae Church, Berat (Albania), second half of the 16th century.
18th century icon painting by Kostandin Shpataraku.