Monumental Art in the Lordship of Athens and Thebes 409
fragments of 1330 seem to follow the linear and flat provincial style of the first
fresco layer of the church.98 As has been noted, certain early 14th-century mon-
uments in the Latin-held provinces seem to continue the conservative stylistic
trend of the last decades of the 13th century.99 Other examples in Aegina fol-
lowing more or less the same stylistic tendency are the image of the mounted
St Demetrius in the eponymous church at Asomatoi, and the decoration of the
church of the Taxiarches on Mount Hellanion. In the dome of the latter church,
deviating from the standard iconographic programme, are depicted scenes of
98 See above, p. 398.
99 Μanolis Chatzidakis, “Classicisme et tendances populaires au xive siècle. Les recherches
sur l’évolution du style,” in Actes du Congrès International des Études Byzantines, Bucarest
6–12 septembre 1971, 3 vols. (Bucharest, 1974), 1:162–64; Mouriki, “Stylistic Trends,” pp. 74–78;
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, “Τάσεις της μνημειακής ζωγραφικής περί το 1300 στον ελλαδικό και
νησιωτικό χώρο (εκτός από τη Μακεδονία)” [“Trends in Monumental Painting around 1300
in Greece and the Islands (except for Macedonia)”], in Ο Μανουήλ Πανσέληνος και η εποχή
του [Manuel Panselenos and his Age], ed. Lenos Mavrommatis (Athens, 1999), pp. 63–90;
Mitsani, “Οι τοιχογραφίες του Αγίου Νικολάου Μαύρικα,” pp. 376–77.
figure 11.17 Desphina, church of the Taxiarches. Ascension and Nativity, details.
Photo: author, by permission of the 24th Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.