Field notes and essays on the churches of Crete: their frescoes, painters, inscriptions and the people around them.
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Just a dozen or so metres from my bed, the little church of Agios Athanasios has stood there for years — with hell labelled like a road sign, sinners bitten by snakes, and Ossia Maria, after whom the Samaria Gorge takes its name.
At the edge of an oak forest near Drakona stands a church so small that it would be easy to take it for an unremarkable roadside chapel. And yet, in its faded frescoes, a rare story of Saint Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity, has survived — together with a trace of a world in which Byzantine Crete met the West.
In the catalogue
One of the most remarkable churches in Selino in terms of its iconographic programme.
In the catalogue