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Lymberopoulou, Angeliki
(2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838602284.0011
URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-art-of-the-poor-...
Abstract
The island of Crete came under Venetian domination during the division of the territories of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the fourth Crusade in 1204. It remained a colony of the Serenissima between 1211 and 1669, a period which culturally consists one of the most prolific in the island’s long history. The plethora of monumental decoration that survives in rural areas of the island testifies to a thriving artistic production that reveals on the one hand an adherence to the Byzantine iconography and style and on the other a social interaction between the native Greek Orthodox Cretan and the Venetian Roman Catholic colonists. This social interaction facilitated trade, which in turn enabled the inhabitants of rural Crete to be able to afford religious art for their community.
Byzantine art is regularly associated with the glamour of expensive material and sparkling gold backgrounds. At the same time the portrait of the donor has received in recent years the attention it deserves in scholarship. This paper however aims at bringing to the foreground of artistic production donorship with a difference, based not on individual wealth, but rather on a collective purse of limited strength that nevertheless managed to produce a huge number of tiny monuments which to the present day dominate the magnificent Cretan landscape.
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- Item ORO ID
- 73307
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISBN
- 1-78831-675-4, 978-1-78831-675-0
- Extra Information
- Notes of Chapter 4 on pp. 211-215
- Keywords
- Art of the Poor; Venetian Crete; wall paintings; church decoration and ornament
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2020 Rembrandt Duits
- Depositing User
- Angeliki Lymberopoulou