Obscured by Walls
The B?ma Display of the Cretan Churches from Visibility to Concealment
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2020
Book
Hardback
156 pages
978-3-88467-326-3 (ISBN)
Description
This study reveals the artistic and cultic multiplicity of arrangements, consisting of archaism and modernization, until the crystallization of the Iconostasis as the »distinctive feature of churches of the Byzantine rite«, thus a material proof of cultural identity and religious consciousness of the Orthodox populace in an area (Crete) and a period (Venetian rule) that is characterized by both osmosis and conflict.