Monumental Art in the Lordship of Athens and Thebes 381
The two churches in the eastern Peloponnese and in Euboea, which show the
distances an itinerant painter could cover at that time, were related politically
and ecclesiastically to Athens, since the Argolid at that time belonged to the
de la Roche family while parts of Euboea were ecclesiastically dependent on
the metropolis of Athens.34
On the basis of stylistic analysis a group of painted churches has been
attributed to a local workshop active in Athens and in the countryside in the
second quarter of the 13th century.35 The most significant painted monument
34 Kalopissi-Verti, Die Kirche der Hagia Triada, pp. 318–19.
35 Nafsika Panselinou, “Επαρχιακό εργαστήριο ζωγραφικής που ανιχνεύεται από τον τοιχογραφικό
διάκοσμο μνημείων του 13ου αιώνα στην Αττική” [“A Provincial Painters’ workshop as Detected
in the Murals of 13th-Century Monuments of Attica”], in Δώρον. Τιμητικός τόμος στον καθηγητή
Νίκο Νικονάνο [Gift: A Volume in Honour of Professor Nikos Nikonanos] (Thessalonica, 2006),
figure 11.3 Loukisia, Boeotia, church of St George. Deacon, detail.
Photo: I. Vaxevanis, by permission of the 23rd Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.