ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with two Cretan artists allegedly separated by 150 years of artistic production: the painter Angelos and Angelos Akotantos. The oeuvre of the painter Angelos consists of numerous icons now located in Crete, on Patmos, Naxos, Folegandros, Zakynthos, in the Byzantine Museum in Athens, in private collections and elsewhere. St Phanourios is usually depicted wearing military dress and holding a spear, a shield and a cross which ends in a candle. Angelos Akotantos belongs among the painters from the first half of the fifteenth century, a period from which many famous artists are known to us either from dedicatory inscriptions in the churches of the period or from documents in the Venetian archives. Features which encourage us to date the icon to the fifteenth century include the type of crown worn by the saint, the gold snood binding her hair and the earrings with the spindle-shaped pendant stones.
