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On 09/30/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Romanus/Romanos the Melode/Melodist (6th century)...
> Romanus as depicted in a late thirteenth- or very early fourteenth-century fresco, attributed to Manuel Panselinos, in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos: http://tinyurl.com/26j6m73 , http://tinyurl.com/269l62j
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> Romanus (at left; at right, St. Stephen protomartyr) as depicted in the frescoes (c1313-c1320) of the diaconicon of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in southern Serbia: http://tinyurl.com/38nvnl5
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Romanus the Melode as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1314 and ca. 1320) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychius in the church of St. Nikita at Čučer in today's Čučer-Sandevo in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/6co8uym
Not specifically labeled as the Melode but iconographically so similar to the foregoing images as to almost certainly be depictions of the same saint (and thus probably not St. Romanus of Antioch, who also was a deacon) are:
Romanus as depicted in the later thirteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1295) by the court painters Michael Astrapas and Eutychius in the church of the Peribleptos (now Sv. Climent Novi) in Ohrid:
http://tinyurl.com/3kz6cmc
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Romanus as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/359vn6m
Best,
John Dillon
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