RITZOS, Andreas
(b. ca. 1422, Candia, d. ca. 1492, Crete)

The Dormition of the Virgin

1480-90
Tempera on panel, 85 x 54,5 cm
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, Venice

Andreas Ritzos was a representative of the Cretan School of icon painting in the late fifteenth century.

This icon shows the established pattern for this subject in fifteenth-century Byzantine art.




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