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Ioannis Spatharakis, Dated Byzantine wall paintings of Crete
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Abstract
Ioannis Spatharakis has produced a book about the iconography of seventy-three painted churches of Crete. Given the lack of an exhaustive photographic publication of the Byzantine wall paintings of the island and the relatively few monographs on individual churches, in the past forty years scholars have attempted to compile synthetic works with mixed results. Three other volumes have dealt with Cretan frescoes prior to Spatharakis's book reviewed here: K. D. Kalokyris, The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete (New York, 1973); Manfred Bissinger, Kreta. Byzantinische Wandmalerei. Münchener Arbeiten zur Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie 4 (Munich, 1996); and to a lesser degree Klaus Gallas, Klaus Wessel, and Manolis Borboudakis, Byzantinisches Kreta. Studium und Reise. (Munich, 1983) which is a learned, comprehensive travel guide.
Title: Ioannis Spatharakis, Dated Byzantine wall paintings of Crete
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Abstract
Ioannis Spatharakis has produced a book about the iconography of seventy-three painted churches of Crete.
Given the lack of an exhaustive photographic publication of the Byzantine wall paintings of the island and the relatively few monographs on individual churches, in the past forty years scholars have attempted to compile synthetic works with mixed results.
Three other volumes have dealt with Cretan frescoes prior to Spatharakis's book reviewed here: K.
D.
Kalokyris, The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete (New York, 1973); Manfred Bissinger, Kreta.
Byzantinische Wandmalerei.
Münchener Arbeiten zur Kunstgeschichte und Archäologie 4 (Munich, 1996); and to a lesser degree Klaus Gallas, Klaus Wessel, and Manolis Borboudakis, Byzantinisches Kreta.
Studium und Reise.
(Munich, 1983) which is a learned, comprehensive travel guide.
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