Book Description
This volume is based on the specialized classification of published and unpublished material regarding Greek devotional painters and their work, both portable icons and frescoes, from the mid-15th to the mid-19th centuries. It draws on the two volumes by Manolis Hadjidakis on Greek painters after the Fall of Constantinople, published by the Institute of Neo-Hellenic Research in 1987 and 1997 respectively. The goal of this research tool is not to simply provide an index or inventory, but to construct the complex profile of 2.400 painters and their works, 4.800 portable icons and 820 frescoes. It provides a classification of painters according to their place of origin, work and times. The data analysis related to the compilation of the lists in this book was undertaken with the aim of providing multiple levels of interpretation.