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Images of Saint Anne in the Ionian Islands (Fifteenth–Eighteenth Centuries), Page 1 of 1
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The article examines the preservation of the Byzantine iconographic tradition alongside the growing influence of Western style in images of Saint Anne on three Greek Ionian Islands after the establishment of Venetian rule: Corfu (1386), Zante (1482), and Kefalonia (1500). A new political, religious, and social context characterized the production of art on these three islands during their occupation by the Republic of Venice. After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, when icon painters sought refuge in Venetian-held Crete, and the later flight to the Ionian Islands (which were also Venetian possessions) after the sack of Crete in 1699, the Ionian Islands played a decisive role in the development of post-Byzantine art and later modern Greek painting.
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