The wall-paintings in the monastery of the Genesis Theotokou at Polydendri, Agia (1590) remarks on the programme and the iconography of the katholikon

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Published: Jul 6, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.484
Keywords:
16th century Thessaly Agia Polydendri monumental painting wall painting iconographic programmes iconography Communion of the Apostles Wedding in Cana Supper of Simon the Leper Eothina gospels (Resurrectional matins)
Σταυρούλα ΣΔΡΟΛΙΑ
General Secretariat for Culture
Abstract
The church of the Birth of the Virgin at Polydendri, Agia, was the katholikon of a small monastery, first recorded in the Ottoman archives in 1569/70. It is of a single-aisle dromical type with a narthex on the west side. The wall-paintings in the interior are dated to 1590, on the basis of a dedicatory inscription now detached from the wall. They include two zones of Christological scenes and one of full- standing saints. This painting is linked with earlier and contemporary workshops in Macedonia, as is the case in other monuments of eastern Thessaly in this period.
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Σταυρούλα ΣΔΡΟΛΙΑ, General Secretariat for Culture

Ministry of Culture and Tourism

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