Adoration of the Magi veneto-cretian, XVII century




Painting on a Venetian-Cretan panel from the early 1600s, the panel has a curvature towards the internal part. Measurement 32x37 It was the Venetian domination that generated the Cretan Renaissance, which made the meeting between the two artistic traditions, the Greek and the Western one, profitable. The origin of the phenomenon is also generated in this case by the modification of the social structures of the island, caused by trade and consequently by the appearance of a mercantile bourgeoisie increasingly adhering to the lagoon culture and at the same time of a Venetian population capable of absorbing and illustrious traditions coexist.
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