The unknown late byzantine layer of wall painting in the church of Panagia in Roeino, Arkadia. New evidence for a local painting workshop
Abstract
This study examines a previously-unknown layer of wall painting in the church of the Panagia in Roeino. It occupies the area of the Bema as well as the eastern part of the nave (apart from the masonry templon). A new dating in the second half, probably towards the last quarter, of the 14th century is proposed, and an effort is made to attribute it to a workshop of painters who worked in the churches of Hagios Georgios and Hagioi Apostoloi (Holy Apostles) in Longanikos. The decoration of two more churches in the surrounding area of Roeino and Longanikos is also ascribed to this circle. On the basis of the correspondence of Manuel Raoul, secretary to the Despot of Mystras Manuel Kantakouzenos it is hypothesized that Tavia, a purported artistic center of the age, was where this workshop’s painters received their artistic training.
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ΔΗΛΕ Ν. (2016). The unknown late byzantine layer of wall painting in the church of Panagia in Roeino, Arkadia. New evidence for a local painting workshop. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 35, 77–108. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.1751
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