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Die spätbyzantinischen Wandmalereien des Theodor Daniel und Michael Veneris
Eine Untersuchung zu den Werken und der Vernetzung zweier kretischer Maler
For late Byzantine art history, Crete provides a unique collection of monuments. The period from 1211 to 1669, when the island was under the rule of the Venetians, allows insights into a multifaceted and complex society. Within this unique artistic and cultural landscape, the works of the late Byzantine church painter Theodor Daniel and his nephew Michael Veneris particularly stand out. The present publication devotes itself for the first time to an in-depth and wide-ranging investigation of their works. Beside the identification and attribution of their unsigned works, analyses accruing from this form key aspects. The most important step for the aims expressed is provided by the systematic attribution of the pair’s works. This and the assignment of the unsigned works are found in the first part of the publication. In the second part the interconnections of Theodor Daniel and Michael Veneris with other Cretan artists is discussed. Beside contacts with Ioannes Pagomenos, probably the most prominent Cretan church painter of the 14th century, there is a further series of indications that suggest that there existed a regular network among the artists on the island.
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Man kann der Autorin für ihre akribische Arbeit sehr dankbar sein und hoffen, dass auch viele andere der rund tausend Kirchen auf Kreta eine solch eingehende Bearbeitung und hervorragende Publikation erfahren werden!
Eva Haustein-Bartsch, in The Byzantine Review
