The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete (Art)
Publisher: Red Dust, Inc.
Published: November 1973
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780873760232
Subjects: Archaeology; Art, Byzantine; Christian art and symbolism; Crete; Crete (Greece); Painting, Byzantine; Pictorial works; Religious; Art / Painting; Art / Religious; Archaeology / Anthropology
First sentence: The Byzantine wall-paintings that survive in the hundreds of churches scattered throughout Crete provide convincing testimony to the unbroken tradition of hieratic painting that flourished in the Eastern Orthodox world for so many centuries.