Hell on Crete

Lymberopoulou, Angeliki

doi:10.1017/9781108596831.005

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“…Such an intent to convict, or at least to intimidate and prevent, became known in Cypriot iconography only in the late Byzantine period (Kalopissi-Verti 2012: 146-47). Interestingly, a great number of individual punishments were also depicted in countryside churches of Venetian Crete (Tsamakda 2012: 205-8;Lymberopoulou 2020;Weyl Carr 2020: 375-76). The iconographic similarities are perhaps not surprising as both islands were part of the Serenissima at the time (Kalopissi-Verti 2012: 146-48) and shared analogous rural social environments.…”

Section: The Paintings: Fragmentary Splendor Of a Sixteenth-century C...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Hidden Mediterranean History/Histories

Walsh¹,

Schmid²

2021

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

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The following article approaches a historic monument on the island of Cyprus, the sixteenth-century Panagia tou Potamou church, with an interdisciplinary methodology. An in-depth study of its history, architecture, and paintings leads to a new evaluation of the church's value for Cypriot and Mediterranean research. The church has proven to be a space for burial and private memory of a sixteenth-century semirural community, reflected in the staging of a prominent burial and the iconographic topics underlining ideas of intercession and salvation. Ultimately, this enables an enhanced appreciation of “minor monuments” in general. The other angle of approach concerns heritage questions: in precarious state for most of the twentieth century, particularly the wall paintings are in urgent need of restoration. In 2015–2017, an emergency intervention secured the most fragile parts and evaluated the state of the church, proposing future ways to ensure the survival of this monument.

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Section: The Paintings: Fragmentary Splendor Of a Sixteenth-century C...mentioning

confidence: 99%