Late medieval Crete and Venice: an appropriation of Byzantine heritage

• Autores: Maria Georgopoulou
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 3, 1995, págs. 479-496
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study views the Venetian colony of Crete as a proving ground for the formation of a new “imperial” image of Venice in the thirteenth century. Despite religious differences with the Byzantines, the Venetian colonizers appropriated the former metropolitan church of Byzantine Crete and incorporated the cult of the sacred relics housed therein in the civic life of the capital city, Candia, to legitimate their presence on the island. This reinterpretation of Byzantine heritage guaranteed the success of Venetian colonization and offered the republic innovative ways in which to manipulate the spoils from Constantinople in the civic center of Venice.