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painters of the church of the Hodegetria at Spelies on Euboea (1311)72 reveal
the range of itinerant workshops coming from northern Greece, the penetra-
tion of the art of Thessalonica and its neighbouring area in southern Greece,
and the reception of these progressive stylistic trends by donors in Frankish-
held regions of southern Greece. Lastly the exact date of the frescoes in Spelies
of Euboea gives a terminus that allows a dating of the murals of the Omorphe
Ekklesia to around 1300 or to the beginning of the 14th century.
The Impact of the Encounter between the Greeks and Latins:
Identities, Reactions, and Rapprochement
The numerous extant Orthodox religious foundations dated, partly through
inscriptions, to the first half of the 13th century, their diffusion in both town
and country, the attestation of at least three painters’ workshops working
72 Melita Emmanuel, “Die Fresken der Muttergottes-Hodegetria-Kirche in Spelies auf der
Insel Euboia (1311). Bemerkungen zu Ikonographie und Stil,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 83
(1990), 451–67.
figure 11.14 Athens, Galatsi, Omorphe Ekklesia, south chapel. Mission of the Apostles.
Photo: author, by permission of the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.