Following the conquest of the Balkans and finally the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans, the temporal division of the Late Paleologian Imperial Art style was transformed into the new artistic style known as Post-Byzantine. The uninterrupted existence of the Archbishopric of Ohrid was one of the key factors in the continuation of Post-Byzantine style in the Western Balkans and in the regions of Prespa and Pelagonia.
One such monument of this period is the church in the village of Graeshnica next to the old road communication from Bitola (Heraclea Lyncestis) running towards southeast to the medieaval town of Hlerin (Florina) near the ancient Roman road of Via Egnatia.
