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Registration The Cretan
Artwork details
- Artwork title
- The Cretan
- Artist
- Vassileiou Spyros (1902-1985)
- Artwork date
- 1941
- Collection
- George I. Katsigras Collection
- Category
- Painting
- Material
- Tempera and Indian Ink
- Main colors
- Black
- Short description
- Historical
- Imaging
- A Cretan with a traditional costume
- Construction
- Tempera and India Ink
- Measurement
- 35 x 50 cm
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Description
As "a handful from the earth" (No. List 51) "the Cretan" emanates from the poem with the same title by Dionysios Solomos. The dressed in black warrior from Crete stands upright and looks at the "star in the sky". Around him exist all the elements that are reported in the poem. The mountains, the sea and the plains, all that he fights for.The composition follows the Byzantine models and reminds intensely of the Byzantine manuscripts. Two-dimensional output, absence of prospect, intense modelling on the faces and stylished folding in the clothing.
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