Architecture
Agios Nikolaos Fountoukli
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Σμαρω
April 11, 2022
The church of Saint Nicholas at Phountoukli is located in a wooded area close to the village of Dimilia in the countryside of Rhodes. The church employs the tetraconch plan a fairly rare architectural type on Rhodes, since it is only encountered three times in total. Much of the architectural features of the church corroborate that the building of the edifice and its fresco decoration are parts of one and the same project.The church of Saint Nicholas dated by inscription in 1497/8 is one of the most important medieval structures of the islands due to its typology and fresco decoration alike. The painted decoration of the church has been preserved in its entity; it consists of scenes of the Christological cycle and scenes pertinent to the soteriological or monastic content of the building, e.g. the vision of Saint Pachomius with the angel, the miracle of Saint Nicholas, the vision of Saint Peter of Alexandria or the Communion of Saint Mary the Egyptian. The iconographic programme also includes a great number of saintly figures, military saints, monastic saints, healing saints both male and female alongside decorative motifs of special artistic value. Among the portraits of the saints in a prominent place on either side of the western entrance of the church are the panels with the family members of donor. The elderly pansevastos logothetis Nicholaos Vardoanis with his spouse, Eudocia Stre(v)lou are depicted on the one side, whereas on the other in a heavenly whitish background their three kids, Mary, Michael and the youngster George. The inscriptions that accompany the portraits inform us that the kids were victims of the plague; over the portrait of Mary the place where she died is also inscribed:
The church of Saint Nicholas at Phountoukli is located in a wooded area close to the village of Dimilia in the countryside of Rhodes. The church employs the tetraconch plan a fairly rare architectural type on Rhodes, since it is only encountered three times in total. Much of the architectural featur…
George
May 17, 2019
The church dates from the 14th century. The Surroundings are amazing. Have a stop before visiting tranditional wine village of Embona
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