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The Mariological Cycle in the Church of the Panayia at Anisaraki, Kandanos : Unusual Iconographic Features

Articles

• Ξανθάκη, Θ.
• ΞΑΝΘΑΚΗ, Θέτις

The seven episodes of the Mariological cycle in the church of the Virgin at Anisaraki near Kandanos in Crete, painted in the last thirty years of the fourteenth century, are interesting not only for the concurrence of an ‘archaizing’ with a ‘modern’ style, but also and primarily for the coexistence of Late Byzantine and Western iconographic features. The representation of the Blessed Mary in the Temple is the only known example of a ‘Western’ subject in Byzantine monumental painting, while the peculiar depiction of the Kolakeia (Caress) is a synthesis of the Heptabematizousa (Mary taking her first seven steps) with the traditional Kolakeia, as it also happens in Dečani.

• History and Archaeology
• Arts

• Arts and religion

14th century, Crete, iconography, mariological cycle, 14ος αιώνας, Κρήτη, εικονογραφία, θεομητορικός κύκλος

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• http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltion/article/view/4384
• http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/dchae.649