{"id":4620,"date":"2024-11-27T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iamm.gr\/work\/the-wall-paintings-of-the-valsamonero-monastery\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:01:35","slug":"the-wall-paintings-of-the-valsamonero-monastery","status":"publish","type":"works","link":"https:\/\/www.iamm.gr\/en\/work\/the-wall-paintings-of-the-valsamonero-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall Paintings of the Valsamonero Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The monastery lies on the southern foothills of Mount Psiloritis, near the settlement of Vorizia (54 km from Heraklion). The name \u201cValsamonero\u201d itself reflects the character of the location. Now abandoned, the monastery was a flourishing monastic foundation during the Venetian period.<br\/>The presence of high-quality painting across all the aisles\u2014clearly visible in the photographs included in the publication\u2014largely influenced by Constantinople, highlights the monastery\u2019s importance in shaping artistic developments in Crete during the first half of the fifteenth century.<br\/>The study was carried out by Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou, Angeliki Katsiotis, and Maria Borboudaki, and forms part of the publication series issued by the Centre for Research of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art of the Academy of Athens.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monastery lies on the southern foothills of Mount Psiloritis, near the settlement of Vorizia (54 km from Heraklion). The name \u201cValsamonero\u201d itself reflects the character of the location. Now abandoned, the monastery was a flourishing monastic foundation during the Venetian period.The presence of high-quality painting across all the aisles\u2014clearly visible in the photographs included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2285,"template":"","sector":[127],"location":[108],"class_list":["post-4620","works","type-works","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sector-publications-en","location-crete-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Wall Paintings of the Valsamonero Monastery - Athanasios and Marina Martinos Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iamm.gr\/en\/work\/the-wall-paintings-of-the-valsamonero-monastery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Wall Paintings of the Valsamonero Monastery - Athanasios and Marina Martinos Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The monastery lies on the southern foothills of Mount Psiloritis, near the settlement of Vorizia (54 km from Heraklion). 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