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Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian...28 KB (3,071 words) - 17:16, 27 June 2024
The Cretan Muslims or Cretan Turks (Greek: Τουρκοκρητικοί or Τουρκοκρήτες, Tourkokritikí or Tourkokrítes; Turkish: Giritli, Girit Türkleri, or Giritli...43 KB (5,195 words) - 03:40, 11 July 2024
History of Crete (redirect from Cretan history)cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene cretensis) all of which but the shrew are now...42 KB (5,481 words) - 17:09, 16 July 2024
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...12 KB (1,377 words) - 18:22, 15 September 2023
the style of the Cretan School. He passed much of his career as a member of the monastic community of Mount Athos. Theophanes was part of the artistically...9 KB (772 words) - 05:34, 15 January 2024
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...12 KB (1,458 words) - 09:02, 20 June 2024
Michael Damaskinos (category Cretan Renaissance painters)a leading post-Byzantine Cretan painter. He is a major representative of the Cretan School of painting that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries....14 KB (1,138 words) - 11:52, 13 April 2024
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...26 KB (2,778 words) - 08:08, 6 June 2024- Cretan Greek, or the Cretan dialect (Greek: Κρητική Διάλεκτος, [kritiˈci ðiˈalektos]), is a variety of Modern Greek spoken in Crete and by the Cretan...9 KB (1,009 words) - 14:11, 27 June 2024
Italo-Byzantine (section Cretan paintings)difficult to distinguish from works of the Cretan School, the main source of Greek imports to Europe. In the mid-20th century, many of these were attributed...24 KB (3,186 words) - 08:32, 16 July 2023
The Cretan State (Greek: Κρητική Πολιτεία, romanized: Kritiki Politeia; Ottoman Turkish: كرید دولتی, romanized: Girid Devleti) was established in 1898...18 KB (1,752 words) - 07:47, 19 July 2024- Cretan cuisine (Greek: Κρητική κουζίνα) is the traditional cuisine of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The core of the Cretan cuisine consists of food...4 KB (389 words) - 07:41, 10 July 2024
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,...21 KB (2,193 words) - 05:40, 31 May 2024
an icon of the Cretan school, depicts Michael on the left carrying the lance and sponge of the crucifixion of Jesus, with Gabriel on the right side of...10 KB (960 words) - 21:33, 29 April 2024- Cretan School, Cretan Renaissance – 1500 – 1700 Heptanese School – 1650 – 1830, began on Ionian Islands Nazarene movement – c. 1820 – late 1840s The Ancients...10 KB (960 words) - 16:21, 29 June 2024
Kingdom of Candia (category 13th-century establishments in the Republic of Venice)in 1205–1212 to its fall to the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–1669). The island was at the time and up to the early modern era commonly known...55 KB (7,084 words) - 01:46, 4 July 2024
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 and...18 KB (1,913 words) - 17:57, 25 May 2024
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)from Crete. The Cretan School was the source of the many icons imported into Europe from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance. The gold background...37 KB (4,269 words) - 14:54, 8 July 2024
Theodore Poulakis (category Cretan Renaissance painters)considered the father of the Heptanese School and one of the most prolific painters of Venetian Crete. Poulakis was a member of the Cretan School, his contemporary...9 KB (867 words) - 21:25, 30 April 2024
- neighbourhood of the Cretan coast the largest is Gavdo (ancient Clauda, Acts xxvii. 16), about 25 m. from the south coast at Sphakia, in the middle ages the see of
- piping-hot lie is the best of lies: what the gods dictate, that is right. Plautus, Mostellaria, III. 1. 134. Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying
- sacred writing. The classic example is Egyptian hieroglyphs; others include Cretan, Anatolian, and Mayan. (linguistics; Intermediate; sister: Wiktionary)