Post-Byzantine Cretan Icon Painting

Demand and Supply Revisited

Bibliographic Data

ID21974279
AuthorsAngeliki Lymberopoulou (0000-0002-8194-4032, The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue4
Pages139
Publication date2023-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/arts12040139
OpenAlexW4383295128
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Since Manolis Chatzidakis’s pivotal publications on post-Byzantine Cretan icon painting in the 1970s, research in the field is, by now, very well established. In turn, these studies have demonstrated the contribution of Venetian Crete’s artistic production to European culture. Despite Giorgio Vasari’s condemnations of the ‘Greek style’, Byzantine icons remained popular in Renaissance Europe among Western patrons. Research on Venetian Crete has greatly benefitted from the survival of its archives, presently housed in Venice (Archivio di Stato di Venezia), an incredibly rich and invaluable source of information. One of the best-known published and referenced documents from these archives, supporting the wider popularity and dissemination of Cretan icons, is a contract offered to three Cretan painters dated 4 July 1499 concerning the production and delivery of 700 icons of the Virgin in just 42 days, by 15 August 1499, the day of the feast of the Dormition of the Virgin. This paper revisits the information the famous contract provides with the aim to scrutinise it further

Ancient history · Art · Art history · Byzantine architecture · Icon · Painting · Political science · Popularity · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law

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