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Photo: female donor, Alikampos, Apokoronas, Chania

Female donor kneeling on the left side of the enthroned Virgin and Child, detail from the north wall of the fresco decoration in the church of the Dormition of the Virgin, painted by Ioannes Pagomenos in 1314/1315, Alikampos, Apokoronas, Chania, Crete

Photo: Vasiliki Tsamakda (used with permission).


photo: fresco decoration on the west wall of the church of the Virgin, Kakokidi

Dedicatory inscription (top), Saints Marina (left) and Paraskevi (right) with female donor in the middle kneeling towards Saint Marina and surviving fragments of decorative motif (bottom), left side of the fresco decoration on the west wall of the church of the Virgin, painted by Ioannes Pagomenos in 1331/1332, Kakokidi, Selino, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Diogenes Papadopoulos and Angeliki Lymberopoulou.

 


Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation, detail from the fresco decoration in the sanctuary in the church of Saint John the Theologian, fourteenth century, Elos, Kisamos, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Rembrandt Duits (used with permission).


Photo: Christ-Child, Kefali

Detail with Christ-Child from the fresco decoration depicting the Officiating Hierarchs (Holy Liturgy) in the sanctuary in the church of Christ the Saviour (Transfiguration), fifteenth century, Kefali, Kisamos, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Rembrandt Duits (used with permission).


Photo: scene from Hell

Detail with scenes from hell depicting the punishments of various sinners, from the fresco decoration on the west wall in the church of the Archangel Michael, fourteenth century, Kakodiki, Selino, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Diogenes Papadopoulos and Angeliki Lymberopoulou.


Photo: decorative motif of a bird, fresco

Detail with decorative motif of a bird, fresco decoration on the north wall in the church of Hagios Nikolaos painted by Ioannes Pagomenos in 1325/26, Maza, Apokoronas, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Rembrandt Duits (used with permission).


Photo: Christ Pantokrator, fresco

Christ Pantokrator, fresco decoration in the sanctuary in the church of the Archangel Michael, painted by Ioannes in 1327/28, Kavalariana, Kandanos, Selino, Chania, Crete.

Photo: Diogenes Papadopoulos and Angeliki Lymberopoulou.

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