Fresco, Church of St Nicholas, Mystras, Peloponnese, Greece

Ottoman fresco, possibly the tearing of the veil, 17th - 18th century, in the Naos Agios Nikolaou, or St Nicholas Church, built 17th century during the Ottoman era, in Mystras, a ruined fortified town, capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, 14th - 15th century, on Mount Taygetus near ancient Sparta, in Peloponnese, Laconia, Greece. The Byzantine town full of churches decorated with frescoes was also settled by the Ottomans but was abandoned in the 1830s and is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom and United States Of America

Agios Byzantium Despotate Fortified Frescoes Hellenic Laconia Lakonia Mistras Morea Mystras Myzethras Myzithras Naos Ottomans Palaeologan Peloponnese Settled Sparta Taugetus Taygetos Taygetus Tearing

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > COH