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The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana - Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-Dominated Crete (Hardcover)
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The Church of the Archangel Michael at Kavalariana - Art and Society on Fourteenth-Century Venetian-Dominated Crete (Hardcover)
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Dr. Angeliki Lymberopoulou lectures on Byzantine Studies at the
Open University, and is an expert on the art and society of
Venetian-dominated Crete (12111669). During this period, Crete was
perhaps the most important Venetian stronghold in the
Mediterranean. The traditional view that there was little cultural
interaction between the native Greek Orthodox population and the
Venetian colonists has recently been cast in doubt. From the early
fourteenth century onwards, the two ethnically and religiously
different inhabitants of Crete formed in fact a hybrid society, and
Cretan artistic development reflects this progress. The book
focuses as a case study on the church of the Archangel Michael at
Kavalariana. This is a small church in the village of Kavalariana
on the south-western part of the island. It is dated by a
dedicatory inscription to the year 1327/28. The conservative
iconographic programme of the wall paintings inside the church
consists of seventeen religious scenes and thirty-three isolated
saintly figures. As the paintings are signed Ioannes, they have
been attributed to the prolific fourteenth-century Cretan artist
Ioannes Pagomenos. A close examination of the style and comparisons
with Pagomenos oeuvre suggest, however, that Ioannes of Kavalariana
was a separate artist with an identity of his own. A unique feature
of the Kavalariana cycle is the pro-Venetian inscription which, in
combination with the fourteen portraits of the donors that appear
in the church, forms an important witness to Venetian/Cretan
cultural interaction.
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