Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
(2013). Regional Byzantine art from Venetian Crete.
In: Lymberopoulou, Angeliki and Duits, Rembrandt eds.
Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe.
Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 61–99.
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Abstract
This chapter discussed the decoration of Orthodox churches on Crete during the period of Venetian rule (1211-1669). It analyses the geographical dispersion of the decorated churches (taking into account that urban re-development has destroyed the majority of the churches in the cities on the north coast of the island) and the chronology of the fresco cycles (most of which date from the 14th and 15th centuries, so that the end of their period of production coincides with the beginning of the more famous manufacture of hybrid icons on Crete). It also questions the accepted theory that the conservative style and iconography of frescoes in Cretan churches are a manifestation of the prolonged hostility of the native Orthodox population towards the Venetian colonists.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2013 Ashgate Publishing |
| ISBN: |
1-4094-2038-8, 978-1-4094-2038-5 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Art History |
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| Item ID: |
30784 |
| Depositing User: |
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
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| Date Deposited: |
09 Feb 2012 11:07 |
| Last Modified: |
18 Mar 2013 09:16 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30784 |
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