Theophanis the Cretan to the Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas, Meteora by Antones Bekiares - 2010: ΕΞΑΝΤΛΗΜΕΝΟ

Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Soft cover, 25x20 cm, 164 pp., ill.

The Byzantine painters succeeded in glory to depict the timeless, bring to the present, before and beyond. The painting graced the glorious temples of the empire, bridging the gap of iconoclasm in Greek art. With the decline of our cultural center in 1453, the conquest of Istanbul, a new rift in our history. Many intellectuals and artists leaving enslaved by the Turkish homeland and refuge in places more freely, in Crete, Venice and elsewhere. Whether you're staying there or enslaved in Greece, now operate their craft in a different way. The post-Byzantine artist recounts the same events with an additional element, the-homecoming, a harmonic component of the matters stated. "Brothers we have an ode menousan city but mellousan desired." Theofanis the Cretan seems to 'yes, the first comprehensive holdover of the old masters. Bring the spirit without imitating their time. Stafroanastasima-paint-in the spirit of Orthodox worship. The charmolypi, the more authentic sense of our faith informs his entire painting. The finished work that the answer from Saint Nicholas Anapafsas (1527) in Hagios Nikolaos Monastery Stavronikita, Mount Athos (1545-1546), established as the father and teacher for the next function of art in our ecclesiastical painting. Narrated that he had received in spirit and in shape, with color-now-at unchanged.