Propylaeum

The western sacred art of the Middle Ages presents a rich, cross-genre repertoire of images of Adam and Eve stories. In Eastern Church monumental painting the subject only found its way into the picture programs of the churches in the post-Byzantine period. All the more remarkable is the innovative genesis of Adam and Eve cycles in Venetian-dominated Crete in the 14th and 15th centuries, which are reconstructed and analyzed in this newly published volume from the series "Byzantium between Orient and Occident".