Treacherous Taxonomy: Art in Venetian Crete around 1500 and the "Cretan Renaissance"

• Michalis Olympios ^[1]
  1. [1] Courtauld Institute
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 98, Nº 4, 2016, págs. 417-437
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Two case studies—the architecture of the church of St. Francis in Rethymnon and the carved frame of the Madre della Consolazione painted panel in the Benaki Museum—provide a closer look at the art of Venetian Crete about 1500. The adoption and adaptation of non-Venetian models by Cretan masons and wood-carvers, as exemplified in these instances, indicate multiple artistic contacts with northern Europe, challenging the traditional binary Venice–Crete / metropolis–colony paradigm. Along with the attested perseverance of local Gothic traditions, it undermines the island's claim to its own version of the Italian Renaissance, the so-called Cretan Renaissance.