The wall paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Stemnitsa in the Peloponnese, Greece
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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