Panagia Eleousa in Great Prespa Lake: A symbolic artistic language at the Beginning of the 15th Century
Panagia Eleousa in Great Prespa Lake: A symbolic artistic language at the Beginning of the 15th Century

Summary/Abstract: The text concerns the cave church of Panagia Eleousa on the shore of the Great Prespa Lake near the contemporary Greek borders, which was decorated in 1409–10. The study focuses on two parameters: A. the written epigraphic material, which is connected to the history of the monument and to its patrons, and B. the unusual external and internal mural decoration with symbolic themes and motifs with protective and apotropaic connotations. Both reveal metaphysical semiology linked to the political ideology and to theological beliefs of an unstable period.

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