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The Dormition of the Virgin

1480 · Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, Venice

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Andreas Ritzos was a representative of the Cretan School of icon painting in the late fifteenth century. This icon shows the established pattern for this subject in fifteenth-century Byzantine art.

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The Dormition of the Virgin

About the Artist

Andreas Ritzos

1422 – 1492

Greek icon painter, born in Heraklion on the island of Crete, the son of a goldsmith. He is considered the greatest Cretan painter of the second half of the 15th century. His works provided models for subsequent generations of icon painters. Basically he worked in the Byzantine style, but he was influenced by other styles, too, including the Italian style of painting of the 14th century. He is mentioned in documents until the year 1492. His son, Nikolaos (1446-1503) was also an icon painter.

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