Angelos Akotantos

Angelos
Born Angelos Akotantos
Crete, Republic of Venice
Died 1450 (1451)
Heraklion, Republic of Venice
Nationality Greek
Known for Painting, iconography and hagiography
Notable work The Virgin Cardiotissa,
The Congregation of the Archangels,
Sts Peter and Paul, Deisis,
St. Phanourios killing the Dragon
Movement Cretan School

Angelos Akotantos (Greek: Άγγελος Ακοτάντος) was a 15th-century Icon-painter and hagiographer who lived and worked at Heraklion, Crete, then part of the Republic of Venice. He was the first hagiographer to sign his name on his icons by writing in Greek: "Χειρ Αγγέλου" which, translated in English, means "By hand of Angelos".[1]

Most known about Akotantos is from his will, written in 1436, which now can be found at the State Archives of Venice.[2] He is the most important Greek painter of the first half of the 15th century when the center of Byzantine art is transferred from the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, to Heraklion the capital of Crete, as a result of the fall of Constantinople in 1453.[3]

Akotantos has painted icons of Saint Phanourios who is depicted killing a dragon, similar to Saint George, a local tradition found on icons of the 15th century in Crete.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ newspaper "Ta Nea" (in Greek)
  2. ↑ C.M. Richardson, K. Woods, M.W. Franklin, "Renaissance art reconsidered: an anthology of primary sources" (google books)
  3. ↑ M. Vassilaki, "The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete", Farnham 2009
  4. ↑ newspaper "To Vema" (Greek)

Angelos Akotantos ,a Cretan Medieval Period painer has a painting in the Cleveland Art Museum Cleveland,Ohio("Mother of God with Christ Child")

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