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Monumental painting in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Boeotia

Μνημειακή ζωγραφική στη βυζαντινή και μεταβυζαντινή Βοιωτία (8/4/2011 v.1)

Author(s) : Koilakou Charikleia (10/11/2011)
Translation : Loumakis Spyridon

For citation: Koilakou Charikleia, "Monumental painting in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Boeotia",
Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Boeotia

URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=12979>

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In Boeotia the oldest dated example of monumental painting is placed chronologically at the end of the 10th century in the monastery of Hosios Loukas, which up until the end of the 12th c. was adorned with superb works of art, influenced from Constantinople. The mural paintings in Thebes and Orchomenos were of an excellent quality. In the period of Frankish occupation links with new artistic centers are observed. Inside and outside Thebes are situated works of the second half of the 16th c., attributed to the local painters, the Kontaris brothers.

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Boeotia

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10^th – 19^th c.

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1. Byzantine Period (10th – end of 12th c.) 1.1. Monastery of Hosios Loukas 1.1.1. Church of Panagia 1.1.2. Katholikon 1.1.3. Chapel of the belfry 1.2. Thebes 1.3. Orchomenos 2. Period of Frankish occupation (13th – 14th c.) 2.1. Early period 2.1.1. Connections with Attica 2.2. Late Period 2.2.1. Anonymous works 2.2.2. Eponymous and dated works 3. Ottoman period 3.1. Early years (15th -16th c.) 3.1.1. Workshop of the Theban painters George and Frangos Kontaris (second half of 16th c.) 3.2. Later years (17th – 19th c.) 4. Evaluation
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