Journal article
On the Prehistory of Cretan Icon Painting
- Bacci, Michele University of Fribourg Switzerland
Published in:
- Frankokratia. - Brill. - 2020, vol. 1, no. 1-2, p. 108-164
English
Abstract
The present paper offers some thoughts on the complex issue of Italianate elements in Cretan icon painting by emphasizing the extent to which they can be considered to stem from motifs worked out in the mid-to-late fourteenth century in the wider, fluid space between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean. It focuses on a cluster of Marian panels that, on account of their mixed Byzantine and Western character, have been hitherto confined to the margins of art-historical research and improperly labeled as works of a so-called “Adriatic” school. The critical reassessment of these works illuminates the ways in which innovative compositional, iconographic, and stylistic solutions were developed by masters well acquainted with both Palaiologan and Venetian art, and reproduced in a chain of replicas, some of which can be reasonably attributed to Cretan workshops.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1163/25895931-12340003
- ISSN 2589-5923
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/159381
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