394 Kalopissi-Verti
iconography of the dome in the church of the Taxiarches represents one of
the rare instances of inclusion of saints’ images in the dome in the Byzantine
period and probably indicates the donor’s intention to dedicate the church
to the Holy Anargyroi. Stylistically the murals of the church belong to a pro-
vincial and simplified trend and have been dated to the last decades of the
13th century.
Komnenian reminiscences combined with corporeality in the frescoes
of St John at Acharnes (Menidi)61 indicate a date towards the end of the
61 Mouzakis, Βυζαντινές–Μεταβυζαντινές Εκκλησίες Βόρειας Αττικής, pp. 73–78. For other mural
paintings in Attica—Panagia (Virgin) at Varamba, St Demetrius Saronikou, St George at
Kadi, going back to the 13th century, mostly its second half, see Eleni Ghini-Tsofopoulou,
“Νεώτερα από τη συντήρηση των βυζαντινών μνημείων στα Μεσόγεια” [“News from the
Restoration of the Byzantine Monuments in Mesogaia”], in Πρακτικά Γ ́ Επιστημονικής
Συνάντησης ΝΑ. Αττικής, Καλύβια Αττικής, 5–8 Νοέμβρη 1987 [Proceedings of the Third Scientific
Congress of South-East Attica, Kalyvia, 5–8 November 1987] (Kalyvia, 1988) pp. 431–44;
eadem, “Τα ‘Μεσόγεια,’ ” pp. 184–85. For Boeotia, see Koilakou, “Μνημειακή ζωγραφική στη
βυζαντινή και μεταβυζαντινή Βοιωτία”. The wall paintings of St Kyriake in Keratea/Attica,
formerly dated to the 13th century, Dean McKenzie, “Provincial Byzantine Painting in
Attica: H. Kyriaki, Keratea,” Cahiers Archéologiques 30 (1982), 139–46, have been recently
figure 11.11 Markopoulo, Attica, church of the Taxiarches. The prophet Elisaios and St
Theodote in the dome.
Photo: author, by permission of the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities.