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The wall paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Stemnitsa in the Peloponnese, Greece

Xanthi Proestaki
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
- Iss: 38, pp 165-201
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In Stemnitsa, a wealthy post-Byzantine town with a rich historical heritage in the central Peloponnese, five churches with mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been found as discussed by the authors.
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Five churches with mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have survived in Stemnitsa, a wealthy post-Byzantine town with a rich historical heritage in the central Peloponnese. In the sixteenth century the Church of St Nicholas and in the seventeenth century the wall-paintings in four churches, Panagia Baphero, Prophet Elijah, St Panteleemon and the katholikon of the monastery of the Zoodochos Pege are consistent with the general clime of seventeenth-century painting in the Peloponnese where many and different trends developed in this period.

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