ABSTRACT
Surprisingly one has to turn to Russian icon and wall-painting, rather than to the Athonite monasteries, to find this composition executed.3 And yet, Didron presented as an example a vast painting in the porch of the katholikon of Iviron which, however, does not follow the Painter's Manual but rather, quite literally, the complete text of Psalms 148-150. Another five representations of the last psalms had previously been mentioned in the literature: those in the katholika of Docheiariou and Koutloumousiou, in the Koukouzelissa chapel of the Great Lavra, in the bone chapel of Gregoriou, and in the corridor connecting the katholikon of Docheiariou with the trapeza. To these four more can now be added: those in the katholika of Karakallou, Philotheou, Gregoriou and Xeropotamou.
