Obscured by Walls

The Bema Display of the Cretan Churches from Visibility to Concealment

von Athanassios Mailis

156 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study reveals the artistic and cultic multiplicity of arrangements, consisting of archaism and modernization, until the crystallization of the Iconostasis as the »distinctive feature of churches of the Byzantine rite«, thus a material proof of cultural identity and religious consciousness of the Orthodox populace in an area (Crete) and a period (Venetian rule) that is characterized by both osmosis and conflict.

• Reihe: Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum / Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident
• ISBN: 9783795435608
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2020
• Genre: Geschichte/Mittelalter
• Verlag: Schnell & Steiner