JOURNAL

The papers which make up this tribute are signed by:
● Chryssa Maltezou who offers new archival evidence on the profession of the painter in Venetian Crete during the 15th century; 
● Maria Kazanaki-Lappa who puts forward a new reading of the testament of Angelos Akotantos; 
● Robin Cormack who publishes for the first time two unknown icons by Angelos; 
● Ioannis Varalis who studies the icon of the Christ Pantokrator at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow; 
● Paris Gounaridis who comments on the events of the Council of Ferrara/Florence, which he perceives as a theatrical performance. 
● Alessandro Diana who presents the tomb of Patriarch Joseph II in Santa Maria Novella in Florence; 
● Maria Vassilaki who revisits the topic of icons with pro-union content produced by Cretan painters of the 15th century; 
● Dimitra Kotoula who comments on an icon depicting Sts Augustine, Jerome and Benedict at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge; 
● Michele Bacci who follows the iconographic type of Mater misericordiae (= Lady of Mercy) on wall paintings in Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus; 
● Nano Chatzidakis and Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides who focus on the influence of Angelos’ icons on Cretan painters of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries; 
● Markos Kampanis who explains, from the viewpoint of a modern painter, how he looks at and what he has to learn from the work of Angelos; 
● Stergios Stassinopoulos together with Sofia Sotiropoulou and Alexandros Konstantas who focus on technical aspects of an icon of Saint Nicholas by Angelos; 
● Kalypso Milanou, Chryssa Vourvopoulou, Lena Vranopoulou and Alexandra Kalliga who examine technical aspects of icons produced in the 14th and 15th centuries.