OK, I promised a while ago that I'd try to get more pictures of the church of St. Nicholas in Mystras up. Here we go.
The pictures that follow are from the sequence that includes the prison scene, which you saw in my earlier posting. They consist of four panels from left to right, with the prison scene being the third one.
The first panel (to the right) shows three men in a bed and a king kneeling in a supplicant position before a saint.
The next panel shows the saint surrounded by soldiers
The third panel is the prison scene.
And, finally, the fourth panel. A bed again.
I know this is a scene from hagiography but I still have no idea what the paintings are about or, for that matter, in what context they were created.
Mystras has seven other major churches and twenty or so "chapels." The major churches are well described in the guidebook and elsewhere but St. Nicholas/Aghios Nikolaos is not for some unknown reason. Hence my curiosity.
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