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		<title>Saint Gregory the Theologian at Ypapanti Monastery, Meteora</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Saint Gregory the Theologian fresco belongs to the sanctuary decoration of the katholikon of Ypapanti Monastery at Meteora, painted in 1366/67. Gregory of Nazianzus appears as a holy hierarch in the lower part of the sanctuary programme, his body turned towards the interior of the apse and an open inscribed scroll rising beside him. Divided around the halo, the identifying inscription reads Ὁ ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Θεολόγος. His episcopal vestments, marked by large red and dark crosses, occupy much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Philotheos of Karyes: Koutloumousiou Wall Painting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Koutloumousiou Monastery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Within the trapeza of Koutloumousiou Monastery on Mount Athos, Saint Philotheos of Karyes is represented in a contemporary wall painting belonging to a modern Athonite decorative programme that preserves the formal discipline of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine tradition. The saint occupies the pictorial field frontally, his upper body set against an uninterrupted black ground and enclosed above by a broad gold nimbus edged with narrow white and red bands. A dark monastic head covering descends around the face and over [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drosiani Deesis: Solomon and Christ on Naxos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deesis iconography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[King Solomon in Byzantine art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seventh-century Naxos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Drosiani Deesis, painted in the northern conch of the Panagia Drosiani on Naxos and generally assigned to the seventh century, preserves one of the most unusual pre-Iconoclastic formulations of the intercessory image. At the centre of the five-figure composition stands Christ, accompanied by the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and two figures in sumptuous court dress, one of whom has traditionally been identified as King Solomon. The painter is unknown. The conception, however, belongs to an artistic culture of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Panagia Nikopoios: The Seventh-Century Wall Painting at Drosiani</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seventh-Century Wall Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Mary Byzantine Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Παναγία Δροσιανή Νάξος]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Η τοιχογραφία της Παναγίας Νικοποιού (7ος αι.) στη βόρεια κόγχη του ναού της Δροσιανής, Νάξος.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hieromartyr Benedictos Konstamonitou: An Athonite Painted Image</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hieromartyr Benedictos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Konstamonitou Monastery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hieromartyr Benedictos Konstamonitou is represented frontally, his body aligned almost exactly with the vertical axis of the composition and his direct gaze carrying much of the image’s expressive force. The surviving Greek inscription identifies the figure as Benedictos and connects him with Konstamonitou Monastery on Mount Athos. No secure information concerning the painter, date, support, or original location accompanies the image itself, and these points deserve caution. Its artistic language belongs firmly to the continuing Post-Byzantine and modern Athonite [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint Maximos Kausokalybites – Wall Painting at Pantokrator Monastery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saint Maximos Kausokalybites appears as a full-length monastic saint in the wall painting preserved at the Holy Monastery of Pantokrator on Mount Athos. Frontal and immobile, the figure is closely ordered around a vertical axis formed by the head, beard, monastic habit and long folds descending towards the feet. His right hand holds a slender golden cross, while his left supports an open scroll whose text carries an ascetic exhortation. The identifying inscription, distributed across the deep blue field beside [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unknown Apostles of Pentecost at Pantanassa, Mystras</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pentecost]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Unknown Apostles of Pentecost belong to the northern section of the Pentecost wall painting in the katholikon of the Monastery of Pantanassa at Mystras, part of the painted ensemble generally dated to around 1430. Their individual identities cannot be securely established from these surviving details. The two heads nevertheless preserve enough of the original pictorial language to show how carefully the painter differentiated the members of the apostolic group: one is youthful and beardless, the other markedly older, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Georgios Moschos: Communion of the Apostles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communion fresco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eucharistic iconography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forty Martyrs Monastery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the sanctuary of the katholikon of the Monastery of the Holy Forty Martyrs at Chrysafa in Laconia, the Communion of the Apostles forms part of the exceptionally extensive wall-painting programme executed by Georgios Moschos of Nafplio in 1620. The scene belongs to a church whose construction had begun several years earlier and whose painted decoration, according to the dedicatory inscription, was entrusted to Moschos by the monastery’s community. The painter, when he identifies himself in that inscription, calls himself [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tzortzis: The Martyrdom of Saint Charalambos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cretan School painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dionysiou Monastery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Martyrdom of Saint Charalambos, painted in 1547 in the katholikon of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos, belongs to the great sixteenth-century renewal of monumental painting associated with the Cretan painter Tzortzis and his workshop. The composition, when the eye moves from the dark upper field towards the lower foreground, concentrates the episode within a remarkably restricted pictorial space. An executioner in an intense red garment and metal helmet occupies the dominant vertical axis, while the saint’s kneeling body fills [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Georgios Moschos: Communion of the Apostles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Communion of the Apostles, painted by Georgios Moschos in 1620 for the katholikon of the Monastery of the Holy Forty Martyrs at Chrysafa in Laconia, occupies one of the most charged positions within the sanctuary decoration: immediately beneath the Heavenly Liturgy, in a zone where painted image, altar ritual and Eucharistic theology are brought into unusually close correspondence. The monastery wall paintings, securely documented as part of Moschos’s production, belong to a major monument of seventeenth-century Post-Byzantine painting in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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