Katholikon

Examples of Katholikon in the following topics:

• Architecture and Mosaics in the Middle Byzantine Empire

  • The two churches are connected together by the narthex of the Theotokos and an arm of the Katholikon.
  • The Katholikon is also a Greek cross-plan style church but instead of the dome resting on pendentives, the dome of the Katholikon rests on squinches, which create an octagonal transition between the square plan of the church and the circular plan of the dome.
  • The mosaics found in the Katholikon were created in an early Byzantine style commonly seen in the centuries before Iconoclasm.
  • Top (#1 on diagram): Plan of Church of the Theotokos; Bottom (#2): Plan of Katholikon.
  • Unlike the Church of the Theokotos, the dome of the Katholikon rests on squinches.

• The Byzantine Empire

  • The plan of katholikon church provides the typical layout of Byzantine churches after the eighth century.

• Painting in the Late Byzantine Empire

  • While the monastery's churches do not appear from the outside to follow Byzantine architectural styles, the interior painting of the Katholikon, the Church of the Virgin, is painted in the Late Byzantine manner.
  • The Crucifixion painted behind the altar of the Katholikon of the Monastery of the Virgin at Studenica.