ABSTRACT
Nowadays those of us who study Cretan painting are ever more conscious of the role Angelos played in shaping it. Everyone acknowledges that the painter was a quite outstanding artistic personality in the first half of the fifteenth century, someone who established and crystallized a large number of iconographic subjects in Cretan painting through his own work. Icons painted by Angelos show both iconographic and stylistic similarities with other works of the early fifteenth century thought to have been produced in Crete and perhaps also by Constantinopolitan artists. Angelos Akotantos’ will clearly refers to the relationship between the painter and the abbot of the Varsamonero Monastery, Ionas Palamas. The extant icons by Angelos in the Vrontisi and Hodegetria monasteries show that both these important Cretan monasteries were commissioning icons from Angelos.
