Abstract EN:

Longanikos, in the south Peloponnese, near Mistra, was, at the time of the despotate of the Morea, a village of some importance which held a kind of feudal autonomy, political and military. This is obvious, not only from some meagre historical evidence, but chiefly, from the existence of three churches decorated with frescoes of high quality: the church of Saint George, of the holy apostles and of the dormition of the virgin. Parallel study of the entire mural decoration of all three churches allowed us to pursue the painting production within the confines of a single village and for a specific period of about fifty years from the end of the fourteenth to the mid of the fifteenth centuryand to establish the role of certain ateliers of mistra in regional aristic production. The Longanikos' wallpaintings, in particular, depend, to a great degree, on ateliers active in certain churches and chapels of the capital of the despotate, Mistra.