Late medieval Crete and Venice : an appropriation of Byzantine heritage

Author

Georgopoulou, Maria

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1995, Num. 3, Vol. 77, 479-496, [520], 10 ill.

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

Views the Venetian colony of Crete as a proving ground for the formation of a new imperial image of Venice in the 13th c. Despite religious differences with the Byzantines, the Venetian colonizers appropriated the former metropolitan church of Byzantine Crete, Hagios Titos in Candia, and incorporated the cult of the sacred relics of S. Titus into the civic life of the capital to legitimate their presence on the island. This reinterpretation of the 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.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400
• Krētē (GRC)
• Colonization
• Venezia (ITA)
• 1200-1300
• Churches
• Relics
• Art
• Byzantine
• Titus, S., act.66 A.D.
• Venice, republic of
• Greece

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400
• Krētē (GRC)
• Colonisation
• Venezia (ITA)
• 1200-1300
• Eglise [édifice]
• Reliques
• Art
• Byzantin (art)
• Tite, saint, act.66 ap. J.C.
• Venise, république de
• Grèce

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960101-00281654

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