movement death_date death_place birth_place nationality name field works article_title birth_name bgcolour
cretan school 1450 heraklion , republic of venice crete , republic of venice greek angelos painting , iconography and hagiography '' of the archangels '' , '' sts peter and paul the '' , '' deisis '' , '' st. phanourios killing virgin the dragon '' cardiotissa '' , '' the congregation angelos akotantos
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angelos akotantos

angelos akotantos -lrb- greek : Άγγελος Ακοτάντος -rrb- was a 15th-century icon-painter and hagiographer who lived and worked at heraklion , crete , then part of the republic of venice .
he was the first hagiographer to sign his name on his icons by writing in greek : '' '' Χειρ Αγγέλου '' '' which , translated in english , means `` by hand of angelos '' .
most known about akotantos is from his will , written in 1436 , which now can be found at the state archives of venice .
he is the most important greek painter of the first half of the 15th century when the center of byzantine art is transferred from the capital of the eastern roman empire , constantinople , to heraklion the capital of crete , as a result of the fall of constantinople in 1453 .
akotantos has painted icons of saint phanourios who is depicted killing a dragon , similar to saint george , a local tradition found on icons of the 15th century in crete .
