Gothic architectural sculpture

Quality of ecclesiastical art and specifically of gothic architectural sculpture in the Principality is the keystone of a rid of across-vault, which comes from the Cistercian abbey at Zarakas Stymphalia in Corinthia Greece, founded around 1225. It is decorated with a relief representation of a male face formed with leaves. This motif, known conventionally as Green Man, which is attributed with allegorical meanings, is particularly popular in medieval art of Western Europe.nRelief architectural members form the interior of gothic churches. he colonette, the colonnette base with griffes, and the small capital with lanceolate leaves adorned the church of Saint Francis in Glarentza. Fresco painting is rarer in gothic churches as compared to Byzantine ones. The fragments of wall-paintings also come from the same church.nn

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