Panagiotis Vokotopoulos
Academy of Athens, Greece
During the 15th–17th centuries the Greek island of Crete, then a Venetian colony, developed a school of painting stemming from the Palaeologan ...
... Byzantine Empire under the Palaeologan dynasty, can be also attested in Venetian Crete. The small church of the Panagia in the village of Sklavopoula, diocese of Selino, western Crete, is decorated with ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... often embodied in an abstract form. Strong classical tradition with an intense emotional charge, characteristic of the artist, lends his works (and “A Tondo” is one of them) utmost concreteness, which ...
... is closely linked.
The Renaissance ideals were manifested in Biedermeier artists’ interest to a concrete, diverse reality, which they treated as a reasonably arranged system which could be perceived ...
... made with documentary preciseness showing some coat of arms, stripes and tabs or even sometimes a concrete person who belonged to a certain Compagnia della Calza;
2. Paintings of the Venetian Renaissance ...
... as in Venetian-ruled areas of the former Byzantine Empire, such as the islands of Crete and Cyprus, were directly exposed to Venetian art and they absorbed its influence at various levels. During the 16th ...