Late Byzantine and Early Post-Byzantine Painting in a Borderland: Considering Some Frescoes with Slavonic Inscriptions in the Peshkopi Region, Еastern Albania
Late Byzantine and Early Post-Byzantine Painting in a Borderland: Considering Some Frescoes with Slavonic Inscriptions in the Peshkopi Region, Еastern Albania

Summary/Abstract: The murals in the Church of the Transfiguration, in the village of Herebel, and those of the Ascension and of St Nicholas (only few fragments remaining), in Kërçisht e Sipërmë, are the only surviving church paintings in the now predominantly Muslim region of Peshkopi, Eastern Albania. All three fresco ensembles bear Slavonic inscriptions. They represent the different artistic trends in the territory of the Ohrid Archbishopric during the first century after the Ottoman conquest, namely the “savant” style (Herebel, ca. 1400–1440) and the naive one (Kërçisht, ca. 1500–1540/1550).

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