14/11/2006
Their journeys
The journeys by the Kapesovo hagiographers, in accordance with investigation to date, were not very long, as for example those by the Chionades hagiographers.
They were mainly active in the region of Zagorion and more widely through the prefecture of Ioannina, with its present day borders.
On the basis of their works and the regions where they have been located, we may also postulate on the journeys that they undertook.
Commencing with the earlier iconography ensembles, these have located in the region of Siatista and specifically at the church of Aghioi Menas, Victor and Vicentios in 1728, where the hagiography was carried out by Konstantinos priest and his brothers Anastasios and Nikolaos and at the church of the Prophet Elias and Elissaios in 1742, where the hagiography was carried out by Anastasios Ioannou Kaloudis and his brothers.
Furthermore in the wider region of Siatista the Kapesovo painters father Georgios Oikonomos and his son Anagnostes carried out the hagiography in the catholicon at the Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Mikrokastron (formerly Tsiaroutsino) (1797).
In the Zagorion region they were active at Skamneli, in the narthex at the Monastery of Aghia Paraskevi (1743), at the church of Taxiarchon at Kato Pedina (1749), at the church of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Kapesovo (1761), in the catholicon at the Monastery of Aghios Ioannis at Rongovo, in Tsepelovo (1765), at the Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Makrinos (1792), at the church of Aghios Nikolaos in Tsepelovo (1786), furthermore at the church of Aghios Nikolaos at Kapesovo (1793), at the church of Aghios Georgios at Negades (1795), at the church of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Ariste (formerly Artsista) (1806), at the church of Aghios Menas at Dikorphon (formerly Zondelia) (1812), in the catholicon at the Bisokos Monastery at Kalouta (1818), at the Monastery for the Birth of the Virgin Mary at Kepoi (formerly Bangia) (1841).
Furthermore at the church of Taxiarchon at Chrysorrache (formerly Zagoriane) (1754), in the narthex of the catholicon at the Monastery of Eleousa on the island at Ioannina (1759), in the catholicon at the Monastery of Aghios Ioannis Prodromos at Lycotrichion or Kryas (formerly Banista) (1759), at the church of Panaghia at Photeinon (formerly Zelista) (1761), at the church of Aghioi Apostoloi at Derviziana (1764), where there collaborated the painter Ioannis son of Theodoros from Lozetsi (present day Hellenikon) with the Kapesovo painter Ioannis son of Nitzos, at the church of Aghios Charalambos at Perama (1769), at the Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Grimbovon (1774), at the church of Aghios Georgios at Kourenta (1777), in the narthex for the church of Aghioi Petros and Pavlos at Leukothea (formerly Arachovitsa) (1778), at the Monastery of the Repose of the Virgin Mary at Chrysovitsa (1781), in the narthex for the catholicon at the Monastery of the Prophet Elias at Zitsa (1800), in the catholicon at the Monastery of Aghios Nikolaos at Grammenon (1805).
Assuredly, the research that is continuing, should also bring to the surface other works and regions in which they worked.
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