Wall painting from today 's deserted church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos. Hagios Stephanos, first half of the 13th century. (Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum)
Wall painting from today 's deserted church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos. Hagios Stephanos, first half of the 13th century. (Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum)
Wall painting from today 's deserted church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos. The Three Hierarchs: Hagios Ignatios the Theoforos, Hagios Gregorios and Hagios Ioannis Chrysostomos, first half of the 13th century. (Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum)
The three Hierarchs - continuation of the previous wall painting - : Hagios Basileios, unidentified saint and Hagios Klimis, first half of the 13th century. (Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum)
View of the ruins of the church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos from the west to the east. (Photograph: Chr. Kontogeorgopoulou)
View of the ruins of the church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos. The northern and southern wall. (Photograph: Chr. Kontogeorgopoulou)
Church of Hagios Georgios in Old Oropos. Wall painting fragment on the southern wall. (Photograph: Chr. Kontogeorgopoulou)

Georgios, Hagios, Oropos

Area: Oropos
Type: Basilica
Date: 13th century

Description:

The church, which is situated in the village Old Oropos, is nowadays deserted. It was a small, three-aisled basilica dated to the beginning of the 13th century. When Orlandos studied it, it had already been ruined. In the church there were wall paintings dated to the first decades of the 13th century. Most of them have been removed and are displayed in the Athens Byzantine and Christian Museum. M. Chatzidakis mentions that the painter can be included among the significant artists who know the new expressive means of their period.

Koder J.-Hild F., Hellas und Thessalia, Tabula Imperii Byzantini I, Wien 1976, p. 229.