The masonry screens of Crete (14th-15th centuries). A provincial solution or a confession of faith?
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This paper studies the apparition and the establishment of the fresco-painted masonry altar screens in the Cretan churches of the 14th-15th century. It includes new material evidence from archaeological field surveys mainly from Western Crete, and does not constitute a complete catalogue. Our main goal is to interpret this material as part of a wider transformation of the cultic forms, emphasizing mainly on their importance as indicators of Orthodox purity within the single-aisled churches of Crete, during the period of the early-Venetian occupation.
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ΜΑΪΛΗΣ Α. (2016). The masonry screens of Crete (14th-15th centuries). A provincial solution or a confession of faith?. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 36, 111–144. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.1776
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