Summary
Skhirtladze Zaza, Hieromonk Markos the Georgian - A Painter of the Main Church of the Iviron Monastery at Mount Athos
The construction of the Catholicon in the Iviron Monastery on Mount Athos, apparently, began at the end of the 10th century and lasted three decades in a row. The church should have been painted immediately upon it was built.
The building has remained virtually unchanged to this day, while its paintings should have been renewed several times over the centuries. Traces of the original painting are
