Field notes and essays on the churches of Crete: their frescoes, painters, inscriptions and the people around them.
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In 1327, four families from a mountain village in Selino built a church, hired a painter, and carved into stone a sentence no one before them had dared to write. Seven hundred years later, their faces are still on the wall.
The Church of Saint George in Komitades is a 14th-century sanctuary in the Sfakia region of Crete, known for its well-preserved frescoes painted by Ioannis Pagomenos and for a surviving foundation inscription dated to 1313–1314. Located far from main roads, in a stark mountain landscape, it stands as a valuable testimony to local piety, communal patronage, and the iconographic programme of the Venetian period.
In the catalogue
An exceptional church in an exceptional place.
In the catalogue
The beauty of this landscape easily drowns out the fact that it was a witness to events closer to Greek tragedy than to a holiday story.
In Chromonastiri even silence has its own weight. This is not a village trying to win the attention of visitors — it is a place that lives by its own rhythm, as if time flows differently here.
In the catalogue
Small, beautiful, and wrapped in local legend.
In the catalogue
The birth of a new island on an old map.
The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Deliana as a key to the mentality of its age.
In the catalogue