Ο ναός του Αγίου Ιωάννη στην Κέρια της Μέσα Μάνης. Η μαρτυρία των υστεροβυζαντινών τοιχογραφιών

Abstract

The cross-in-square church of Saint John at Keria in Mesa Mani preserves parts of its original painted decoration, unpublished so far. Iconographic and stylistic observations place the wall paintings in the second half of the 13th century, probably in the decade 1270-1280. Although fragmentarily preserved and extensively faded, the frescoes are attributed to a skilled painter, who surpasses the linear rendering and the stylized modeling characterizing the majority of the wall paintings of the time in Mani, following the novel trends of metropolitan art.