Alexios and Angelos Apokafkos, Constantinopolitan painters in Crete, and the Valsamonero monastery. Documents from the State Archives in Venice (1399-1421)
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The Constantinopolitan painters Alexios and Angelos Apokafkos, documented in Crete (1399-1421), were integrated in the mixed Veneto-Cretan society and attracted commissions by Orthodox monasteries and Venetian noblemen. Alexios accepted apprentices in his art, attempted financial initiatives, and in 1412 painted murals at Valsamonero monastery. Angelos was commissioned to decorate the church of our Lady of the Angels in the city of Candia in 1421 by priest Markos Pavlopoulos, later chief-priest, favoured by the Venetians. The presence of artists from Constantinople in Candia also hints at a direct channel for transmission of Palaiologan trends in Venetian Crete.
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CONSTANTOUDAKI-KITROMILIDES (Μαρία ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΟΥΔΑΚΗ-ΚΙΤΡΟΜΗΛΙΔΟΥ) M. (2023). Alexios and Angelos Apokafkos, Constantinopolitan painters in Crete, and the Valsamonero monastery. Documents from the State Archives in Venice (1399-1421). Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 43, 191–204. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.34381
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