The wall-paintings in the katholikon of the Saint Neophytos Monastery: iconography, artistic identity, and the Cretan Theophanis in Venetian Cyprus
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This paper deals with the wall paintings in the katholikon of the Saint Neophytos monastery, Cyprus and attributes them to the Cretan artist Theophanis Strelitzas-Bathas (ca. 1485-†1559). A Cretan icon in the church, the Virgin “Enkleistriani”, commissioned by abbot Ioakeim II (documented in 1512, †1521), is signed by Theophylaktos. He is here proposed to be identified with a homonymous member (documented in 1509 and 1517) of the Strelitzas-Bathas family of painters active in Crete. Furthermore, following a series of arguments the said Theophylaktos is identified with Theophanis Strelitzas-Bathas, who, selecting a monastic name with the same initial as his secular name, was already a monk by 1527, the year he signed frescoes in Meteora.
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CONSTANTOUDAKI-KITROMILIDES (Μαρία ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΟΥΔΑΚΗ-ΚΙΤΡΟΜΗΛΙΔΟΥ) M. (2023). The wall-paintings in the katholikon of the Saint Neophytos Monastery: iconography, artistic identity, and the Cretan Theophanis in Venetian Cyprus. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 42, 197–238. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.32421
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