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accompanies one of the Church Fathers ( John Chrysostom?) once depicted in
the apse, find parallels in the chapels of the Spelia Pentelis.46
One more painters’ workshop is attested in Attica shortly before the mid-
13th century confirming the rigorous artistic activity in the first decades of the
rule of the de la Roche. In fact, the rendering of the faces with the emphasised
shaded parts around the contours in the figures of the Last Judgment in the
church of St George at Kalyvia Kouvara (c. 1230–50)47 (Figure 11.9) resembles
the figures on the fragmentary paintings, probably also belonging to a scene of
the Second Coming, of the first layer in the church of St Nicholas at the cem-
etery of Kalamos.48
46 Stoufi-Poulimenou, Βυζαντινές εκκλησίες, pp. 109–28.
47 Doula Mouriki, “An Unusual Representation of the Last Judgment in a Thirteenth Century
Fresco at St. George near Kouvaras in Attica,” Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής
Εταιρείας 8 (1975–76), 145–71; Ghini-Tsofopoulou, “Τα ‘Μεσόγεια’,” p. 184, figs. 9–10.
48 Eleni Ghini-Tsofopoulou, “Άγιος Nικόλαος στο νεκροταφείο Kαλάμου Αττικής: Nέα στοιχεία”
[St Nicholas in the Cemetery of Kalamos in Attica: New Evidence”], Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής
Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 11 (1982–83), 227–48.
figure 11. 9 Kalyvia Kouvara, Attica, church of St George. Second Coming, individual
punishments, detail.
Photo: author, by permission of the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.