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Late Medieval Crete and Venice: an appropriation of Byzantine heritage.

From: The Art Bulletin  |  Date: 9/1/1995  |  Author: Georgopoulou, Maria

The complex relationship between Venetian and Byzantine culture in the thirteenth century poses intriguing questions to the art historian. A Byzantine province in the sixth century, Venice became a politically independent state in the early eleventh century. Well into the twelfth century, however, Venice turned to Byzantium for cultural inspiration.(1) In the early thirteenth century, when the republic of Venice transformed itself from a small state into an imperial power at the ...

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