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Cretan school

The Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. The Cretan artists…

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related to 17th century · 27
Cretan school → Baptist, Both, Cretan, Damaskinos's Beheading, During, Georgios Klontzas, Greek-Italian Byzantine, His, In Thee Rejoiceth, John, Kavertzas's Last Judgment, Klontzas, Klontzas's, Klontzas's In Thee Rejoiceth, Klontzas's Last Judgment, Many, Michael Damaskinos, Moskos's Last Judgment, Notable, Philotheos Skoufos
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Cretan school → Architects, Architetti Napolitani, Bernardo, Byzantine Empire, Cretan, Dominici's Vite, Drakopoulou, Eugenia Drakopoulou, Fall, Giorgio Vasari's Lives, Greece, Greek, Greek Painters After, Greek Renaissance, It, Manolis Hatzidakis, Most Excellent Painters, Neohellenic Research, Pittori, Sculptors
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Cretan school → Art, AthensNano Hatzidakis, Cretan, Cultural CrossroadsByzantium, El Greco, El Greco' Saints, Faith, Icon Painting, National Gallery, New York Times Art, NY, PDF, PhiladelphiaThe Origins, Power, Review, The Metropolitan Museum, The Origins, Velimezis Icon CollectionGiorgios Klontzas, Venetian Crete Exhibition

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cretan painters greek school artists works crete byzantine late el painting constantinople greco also icons period georgios century one venice

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Elias Moskosinstance ofThe late Cretan school included painters from the 1600s0.80text
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