A Sailboat Sketch: Dating a Constructive Phase of the Old Cemetery Chapel of Pantokrator Monastery, Mount Athos
A Sailboat Sketch: Dating a Constructive Phase of the Old Cemetery Chapel of Pantokrator Monastery, Mount Athos

Summary/Abstract: Raised on an older building, the mid-14th century Pantokrator monastery, founded by two brothers Byzantine aristocrats, was extended in 15th – 16th century in expenses of Romanian donors. Dedicated to St Athanasius the Athonite, the old cemetery chapel is a modestly sized two-room building located out of the monastery. Several 11th – 12th century marble constructive and decorative members are embedded in the masonry, while on the interior wall, over the entrance, a 16th century sailboat pencil sketch is dating in the same period the last important constructive phase of the narthex’ pavement.

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