[MGSA-L] Fwd: THE CRAFT OF NOBLE METALS_Tue 7 Nov._CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES, King's College London

[Beaton, Roderick]

CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES

LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE SEMINAR SERIES

THE CRAFT OF NOBLE METALS
PRODUCTION OF SILVERWARE AND GOLDEN JEWELLERY IN CRETE (14th-17th CENTURIES) <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.ac.uk%2Fartshums%2Fahri%2Feventrecords%2F2017-2018%2FCHS%2FThe-craft-of-noble-metals.aspx&data=01%7C01%7Crod.beaton%40kcl.ac.uk%7Ccedc8a8e79624da63dac08d52044dea8%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=OE7p1ixnx817OtQIdFANOH5TYXgT%2FvYXNk%2F%2BVGlNZbQ%3D&reserved=0>

Tuesday 7 November 2017, 17:30
Small Committee Room (K0.31) Strand Campus
with MARIA CONSTANTOUDAKI-KITROMILIDOU

A rather neglected branch of art production in Venetian Crete, the activities and products of the silversmiths and goldsmiths’ craft, will be discussed on the basis of documents discovered in the State Archives in Venice. A great number of those masters were active especially in the capital, the city of Candia, and its vicinity, and are documented from the beginning of the thirteenth century through the end of Venetian rule in the island. The study of documents can throw light on a remarkable artistic activity with economic and social implications in Venetian Crete, at the same time allowing some glimpses into the role of the Byzantine heritage in this craft.

MARIA CONSTANTOUDAKI-KITROMILIDOU is Professor of Byzantine archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she has also been director of the university’s Museum of Archaeology and Art History since 2012. She has conducted research in Venice, London, Harvard and elsewhere on late and post-Byzantine art and its links with western art, on which she has published extensively, including several essays and studies on El Greco.

This event is open to all and free to attend. No booking is required.




Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Department of Classics
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies
King’s College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
tel. 0044 20 7848 2517

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