GEORGE KLONTZAS or KLOTZAS Cretan painter known in Candia fr - Lot 56

GEORGE KLONTZAS or KLOTZAS Cretan painter known in Candia from 1564 to 1576 and in Venice Portable triptych: Resurrection, Entombment, Last Supper, Arrest of Christ and Golgotha Panel Painted surface: 18.6 x 14.5 cm H. 32.8cm; W.15cm, overall, closed triptych H.32,8cm ; W.43,5cm , overall, open triptych H.18,5cm ; L. 14,2cm, each side panel DESCRIPTION The open triptych: Left panel: Golgotha and Entombment; reverse: Resurrection Central panel: The Crucifixion, reverse, painted in imitation porphyry Right panel: Christ in the Garden of Olives and The Kiss of Judas; reverse, The Last Supper A private devotional work, this triptych can be compared with the pictorial output of Georges Klontzas, a painter originally from Crete, a Venetian colony, who worked in Candia and Venice in the late century, where he is documented to have arrived after 1576. He must have been part of the Greek Orthodox colony existing in the lagoon since 1498, which met in the church of St. George of the Greeks built in 1573 and containing numerous icons. Our little triptych, as yet unpublished, may have come from there, but was undoubtedly made in Crete, given the ornamental style of the frame. given the ornamental style of the frame, which, in proportions adapted to the particular devotion the large closing triptychs by Georges Klontzas, whose intricate carpentry similar to that of Cretan church chancels 1 (fig. 1). The similarity between this small devotional panel and the one by Georges Klontzas in Venice is striking, particularly its outer surfaces, which feature similar compositions, strongly influenced by Italian art (fig. 2). In both cases, they feature Western iconography often mixed with Byzantine iconography in a mannerist style, treated in the manner of an illuminator style, where an abundance of highly expressive, colorful and meticulously modeled figures fill the entire space, making it possible to attribute this small triptych to the same artist. 1 Venice, Museo di Icone dell'Istituto Ellenico; cf. Maria Kazanaki-Lappa, Arte bizantina e postbizantina a Venezia , 2009, cat. 28 ) Expert : Cabinet Turquin Please ask for the condition reports before the sale: they are not included in the files.