- Born ca. 1163/4,
Mesarites is
first recorded in 1200,
during the
attempted coup of John
Komnenos the Fat. At the time,
Mesarites was
skeuophylax of...
-
central dome
above than the others. The 12th-century
writer Nicholas Mesarites also
recorded a
description of the church, of
which only
fragments survive...
- It was used by the
historian Niketas Choniates and the
writer Nicholas Mesarites, and
consciously inverted by the
Bulgarian ruler Kaloyan, who
called himself...
- was
defended by its skeuophylax,
Nicholas Mesarites, with a
small guard provided by John Komnenos.
Mesarites and his men
managed to
drive the
looters back...
- over
uniting the churches. The then
Metropolitan of Ephesus,
Nicholas Mesarites, was one of the main
opponents to this policy. He was also very influential...
- also
described his paintings, such as
Nicephorus Callistus and
Nicholas Mesarites. Of his works, the most
famed was the dome of the now-demolished Church...
- even his name is uncertain, as the
metropolitan of Ephesus,
Nicholas Mesarites, who
officiated at his marriage,
calls him "Constantine
Doukas Palaiologos"...
- 1032. By the end of the 12th century,
according to
accounts by
Nicholas Mesarites, the church's skeuophylax, and
travellers such as
Anthony of Novgorod...
- dome
covered a
liturgical space.
There is a
written account by
Nicholas Mesarites of a Persian-style
muqarnas dome
built as part of a late 12th century...
- (Athens 2019), 187–206 ISBN 978-960-9538-88-6 ‘The
Logos of
Nicholas Mesarites’, in M.
Mullett and R. Ousterhout, ed., The Holy Apostles: A lost monument...
