17th Century, Byzantine wall paintings, fresco, Kessariani Monastery in Athens, Greece is one of the oldest and most important monasteries in Attica. It was built in the 11th century A.D. close to the ruins of a temple of Aphrodite. The narthex contains paintings by the Peloponnesian painter Ioannis Ypatios while the rest of the church is adorned with murals by painters of the Cretan School of Art.