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Georgios Kastrofylakas (Γεώργιος Καστροφύλακας., 1699/1705 – 1760/1770), also known as Georgios Kastrofylax or (Zorzis).[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Angelos Akotantos, Charalambos, Cretan school, Georgios Klontzas, Hagiography, Heraklion, Iconography, Ioannis Kornaros, Menas of Egypt, Michael Damaskinos, Rococo, Saint Catherine's Monastery.

  2. 18th-century Greek painters
  3. People from Heraklion

Angelos Akotantos

Angelos Akotantos (Greek: Άγγελος Ακοτάντος 1390-1457) was a Greek painter, educator, and protopsaltis.

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Charalambos

Saint Charalambos (Ἅγιος Χαράλαμπος) was an early Christian priest in Magnesia on the Maeander, a city in Asia Minor, in the diocese of the same name.

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Cretan school

Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

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Georgios Klontzas

Georgios Klontzas (Γεώργιος Κλώντζας, 1535-1608) also known as George Klontzas and Zorzi Cloza dito Cristianopullo, was a scholar, painter, and manuscript illuminator. Georgios Kastrofylakas and Georgios Klontzas are People from Heraklion.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Heraklion

Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.

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Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Ioannis Kornaros

Ioannis Kornaros (Ιωάννης Κορνάρος, 1745 – 1821) was a Greek painter. Georgios Kastrofylakas and Ioannis Kornaros are 18th-century Greek painters and People from Heraklion.

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Menas of Egypt

Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; Άγιος Μηνάς,; 285 – c. 309), a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers.

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Michael Damaskinos

Michael Damaskenos or Michail Damaskenos (also Damaskinos) (Μιχαήλ Δαμασκηνός, 1530/35–1592/93) was a leading post-Byzantine Cretan painter.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Saint Catherine's Monastery

Saint Catherine's Monastery (دير القدّيسة كاترين), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

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See also

18th-century Greek painters

People from Heraklion

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Kastrofylakas