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Introduction

from Volume 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2021

By
Rembrandt Duits
Edited by
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

The purpose of this catalogue is to present as complete an overview as possible of the representation of Hell in monumental art during the Venetian period on Crete (1211–1669). The catalogue comprises 107 churches with wall paintings showing or recorded to have once shown representations of Hell, datable for the most part to the 14th and early 15th centuries. Together, these 107 churches form about one eighth of the known body of churches from the Venetian era on Crete.1 They form a valuable cross section that allows us to study, through the lens of Hell, this particular insular tradition of church building and decoration, with its local peculiarities and its accommodation of the needs of a mixed Eastern Orthodox and Western Roman Catholic population.

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Hell in the Byzantine World
A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
 , pp. 412 - 442
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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