Cretan school
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The Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching i
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, probably an early Cretan work of 13th or 14th century
Deposition, Lamentation and Resurrection triptych by Nikolaos Zafouris, c. 1490s (National Museum, Warsaw)
Saint Menas by Emmanuel Lambardos (17th century)
Pietà (1566), Benaki Museum
Crete
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Crete is the largest and most populous island of Greece, the 89th largest island in the world, and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete
Cretan school
…The Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting…
NASA photograph of Crete
Messara Plain
The palm beach of Vai
Lefka Ori