The Heptanese school of painting succeeded the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school, it combined Byzant
Liturgy of St Spyridon by Panagiotis Doxaras, Byzantine museum, Athens
The Fall of Man (Poulakis)
Birth of Virgin Mary by Nikolaos Doxaras.
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
Ionian school (painting)
…of painting (Greek: Επτανησιακή Σχολή, lit. 'school of the Seven Islands'; also known as the Ionian Islands school or Ionian school) succeeded the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school, it combined Byzantine traditions…
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