Monumental Art in the Lordship of Athens and Thebes 397
figure 11.12 Aegina, Omorphe Ekklesia. Entry into Jerusalem.
Photo: author, by permission of the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine
Antiquities.
works were very popular among crusaders of the Latin states in the East and
evidently very well known in the Frankish society of southern Greece, as shown
by the mural decoration of the palace of Saint Omer in Thebes discussed above
and by the painted cycle of the Trojan war that Niccolò da Martoni saw in 1395