Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian...
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History of Crete (redirect from Cretan history)
creutzburgi), the Cretan otter (Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene...
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The Cretan Muslims (Greek: Τουρκοκρητικοί or Τουρκοκρήτες, Tourkokritikí or Tourkokrítes; Turkish: Giritli, Girit Türkleri, or Giritli Türkler; Arabic:...
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The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other...
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Last Judgment (section Cretan School)
scripture on Judgement day should be interpreted literally or figuratively, the school of thought that prevailed (Ashʿarī) "affirmed that such things as the individual...
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is, 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...
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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...
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Neoclassicism – 1750 – 1830, began in Rome Later Cretan School, Cretan Renaissance – 1500 – 1700 Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands Nazarene...
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Cretan cuisine (Greek: Κρητική κουζίνα) is the traditional cuisine of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The core of the Cretan cuisine consists of food...
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Cretan Greek, or the Cretan dialect (Greek: Κρητική Διάλεκτος, [kritiˈci ðiˈalektos]), is a variety of Modern Greek spoken in Crete and by the Cretan...
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True Vine (section Cretan School)
is also depicted in a vine. The True Vine was a popular theme painted by Cretan artists. One of the earliest painters of the theme was Angelos Akotantos...
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Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. They predate Linear A by about a century, but...
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Michael Damaskinos (category Cretan Renaissance painters)
1530/35–1592/93) was a leading post-Byzantine Cretan painter. He is a major representative of the Cretan School of painting that flourished in the 16th and...
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Μπαθᾶς) was a Greek painter of icons and frescos in the style of the Cretan School. He passed much of his career as a member of the monastic community...
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Italo-Byzantine (section Cretan paintings)
artists; some of these are difficult to distinguish from works of the Cretan School, the main source of Greek imports to Europe. In the mid-20th century...
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The Cretan War (Greek: Κρητικός Πόλεμος, romanized: Kritikós Pólemos; Turkish: Girit'in Fethi), also known as the War of Candia (Italian: Guerra di Candia)...
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Ottoman governance.[citation needed] Crete was especially notable for the Cretan School of icon-painting, which after 1453 became the most important in the...
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Bauhaus (redirect from Bauhaus art school)
'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. The school became famous for its approach...
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The Cretan State (Greek: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized: Kritiki Politeia; Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized: Girid Devleti) was established in 1898...
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the Cretan dialect during the 16th century in the Venetian Crete. The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of the Cretan literature...
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the Cretan School which was the most vigorous post-Byzantine school, exporting great numbers of icons to Europe. The willingness of the Cretan School to...
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a national park in 1962, particularly as a refuge for the rare kri-kri (Cretan goat), which is largely restricted to the park and an island just off the...
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widely reproduced image of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, an icon of the Cretan school, depicts Michael on the left carrying the lance and sponge of the crucifixion...
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literary revival unparalleled elsewhere in the Greek world took place: the Cretan School of painting, which culminated in the works of El Greco, united Italian...
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saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is commemorated on August 27. Cretan school artist Angelos Akotantos from Crete had painted a number of the Saint's...
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occurring in Europe during the 14th-18th century. The Cretan School and in particular the Heptanese School of art are two important artistic movements in Greece...
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held by the Venetian Empire and the painting style was known as the Cretan School The scene often includes a fair diversity of animals as well: the ox...
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The Cretan revolt of 1866–1869 (Greek: Κρητική Επανάσταση του 1866) or Great Cretan Revolution (Μεγάλη Κρητική Επανάσταση) was a three-year uprising in...
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Knossos (category Cretan city-states)
increased dramatically.[citation needed] It is believed that the first Cretan palaces were built soon after c. 2000 BC, in the early part of the Middle...
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