Mikhail Damaskinos

The icon is signed by Damaskenos and dates from the 16th century (Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum, Athens)

Michail Damaskinos or Michael Damaskenos ( Greek Μιχαήλ Δαμασκηνός ; * 1530 ; † 1593 ) was an important Greek icon painter .

Life

Damaskinos was born in the Cretan city of Chania in 1530. In Crete he learned the art of icon painting. He later went to Italy , where he first studied and also copied the works of Italian painters. From 1569 to 1573 he lived and worked in Messina . From 1574 he lived in Venice as a member of the Greek community . During this time he was commissioned to paint the icons of the Church of San Giorgio dei Greci , which he completed in 1582. He returned to Heraklion shortly before his death . Around 90 of his works from the years 1555 to 1591 have been preserved.

Artistic importance

Damaskenos was the most famous Cretan painter of the second half of the 16th century. He was a contemporary of Domenikos Theotokopoulos . Damaskinos and Georgios Klontzas are considered to be the most important representatives of the creative rebirth of Cretan icon painting . Damaskinos combined Italian mannerism with Cretan icon painting. Damaskino's works, like those of Andreas Ritzos , became models for subsequent generations of icon painters.

literature

Eva Tea: Damasceno (Damaschino), Michele . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 314 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists. Gründ, Paris 2006, Volume 4: Cossintino – Dyck. ISBN 2-7000-3074-5 , p. 364, doi: 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00046156 (article: Damasceno, Michele ).

Web links

Commons : Michael Damaskenos - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Robin Cormack: Painting the Soul. Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds. Reaction Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78023-251-5 , p. 202.
↑ Angeliki Lymberopoulou: Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule. In: Liz James (Ed.): A Companion to Byzantium. John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4443-2002-2 , pp. 364 f.
^ William H. McNeill: Venice - The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797. University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-56149-3 , pp. 198 f.
↑ Argyro Loukaki: The Geographical Unconscious. Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-317-03067-6 , p. 165.

personal data
SURNAME	Damaskinos, Mikhail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Damaskenos, Michael; Δαμασκηνός, Μιχαήλ (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek icon painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1530
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chania
DATE OF DEATH	1593

[1] Robin Cormack: Painting the Soul. Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds. Reaction Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78023-251-5 , p. 202.

[2] Angeliki Lymberopoulou: Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule. In: Liz James (Ed.): A Companion to Byzantium. John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4443-2002-2 , pp. 364 f.

[3] William H. McNeill: Venice - The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797. University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-56149-3 , pp. 198 f.

[4] Argyro Loukaki: The Geographical Unconscious. Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-317-03067-6 , p. 165.