Peribleptos Monastery, Mystras

It was probably built in the mid-14th century by the first Despot of the Morea, Manuel Kantakouzenos,[1] and named after one of the most celebrated monasteries of Byzantine Constantinople.

The complexity and unique variations of the shape of the structure of the exterior create an interior surface inside the monastery that lends itself to the ethereal quality of the frescoes covering the walls.

These have been described as "delicate and subdued" in[4] Byzantine Architecture and Decoration (Hamilton 194-95) The extensive frescoes covering the interior of Peribleptos Monastery were created from 1350-1375.

As art historian Annie Labatt says: "space and movement are treated with a Western feel in these frescoes".

Peribleptos Monastery, Mystras which fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1460, Greece retained its Byzantine architecture and art, though it was surrounded by westerners (Cormack 198).