382 Kalopissi-Verti
of this group is the church of St Peter at Kalyvia near Kouvaras in Mesogaia of
eastern Attica.36 Besides the dedication of the cross-in-square church to the
leading apostles Peter and Paul, the dedicatory inscription records the date
pp. 169–76. On the role of local workshops, see Maria Panayotidi, “Village Painting and
the Question of Local Workshops,” in Les Villages dans l’Empire byzantin (ive–xve siècle),
ed. Jacques Lefort, Cécile Morrisson and Jean-Pierre Sodini, Realités byzantines 11 (Paris,
2005), pp. 193–212. On the monuments of the Lordship of Athens and Thebes, see Monika
Hirschbichler, “Monuments of a Syncretic Society: Wall Painting in the Latin Lordship
of Athens, Greece (1204–1311),” (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Maryland,
College Park, 2005).
36 Nafsika Coumbaraki-Panselinou, Saint Pierre de Kalyvia-Kouvara et la chapelle de la Vierge
de Mérenta, Deux monuments du xiiie siècle en Attique (Thessalonica, 1976); eadem, “Άγιος
Πέτρος Kαλυβίων Kουβαρά Aττικής” [“St Peter at Kalyvia Kouvara in Attica”], Δελτίον της
Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 14 (1987–88), 173–88; Eleni Ghini-Tsofopoulou, “Τα
‘Μεσόγεια’ από την επικράτηση του Χριστιανισμού έως την Οθωμανική κατάκτηση” [“Mesogaia
from the Spread of Christianity until the Ottoman Conquest”], in Μεσογαία: Ιστορία και
Πολιτισμός των Μεσογείων Αττικής [Mesogaia: History and Culture of Mesogaia in Attica]
(Athens, 2001), p. 184. figs. 6–8.
figure 11.4 Kranidi, Argolid, church of the Holy Trinity. The Ascenscion.
Photo: author, by permission of the 25th Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.