The wall paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Stemnitsa in the Peloponnese, Greece

Abstract

Five churches with mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have survived in Stemnitsa, a wealthy post-Byzantine town with a rich historical heritage in the central Peloponnese. In the sixteenth century the Church of St Nicholas and in the seventeenth century the wall-paintings in four churches, Panagia Baphero, Prophet Elijah, St Panteleemon and the katholikon of the monastery of the Zoodochos Pege are consistent with the general clime of seventeenth-century painting in the Peloponnese where many and different trends developed in this period.

Keywords

• post-Byzantine wall-paintings
• sixteenth-seventeenth centuries
• Stemnitsa
• Peloponnese
• five churches
• St Nicholas
• Panagia Baphero
• Prophet Elijah
• St Panteleemon
• katholikon Zoodochos Pege