Maria Vassilaki is Associate Professor of the History of Byzantine Art at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and Scientific Advisor at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

• Contents: Part 1 The Painter Angelos: The painter Angelos Akotantos: his work and his will (1436); New evidence on the painter Angelos Akotantos; From the 'anonymous' Byzantine artist to the 'eponymous' Cretan painter of the 15th century; Painting and painters in Venetian Crete; St Phanourios: cult and iconography; A Cretan icon in the Ashmolean: the embrace of Peter and Paul; A Cretan icon of St George; An icon of St George on horseback killing the dragon by the painter Angelos: a recent acquisition of the Benaki Museum; The hand of Angelos? Part 2 On Cretan Painting: Some observations on early 15th century painting in Crete; Some Cretan icons in the Walters Art Gallery; The reconstruction a triptych; An icon of the entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in late and post-Byzantine icon-painting. Part 3 The Cretan Painter at Work: The icon trade in 15th-century Venetian Crete; Workshop practices and working drawings of icon-painters; On the technology of post-Byzantine icons; Epilogue; Index.

Maria Vassilaki is Associate Professor of the History of Byzantine Art at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and Scientific Advisor at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

• Contents: Part 1 The Painter Angelos: The painter Angelos Akotantos: his work and his will (1436); New evidence on the painter Angelos Akotantos; From the 'anonymous' Byzantine artist to the 'eponymous' Cretan painter of the 15th century; Painting and painters in Venetian Crete; St Phanourios: cult and iconography; A Cretan icon in the Ashmolean: the embrace of Peter and Paul; A Cretan icon of St George; An icon of St George on horseback killing the dragon by the painter Angelos: a recent acquisition of the Benaki Museum; The hand of Angelos? Part 2 On Cretan Painting: Some observations on early 15th century painting in Crete; Some Cretan icons in the Walters Art Gallery; The reconstruction a triptych; An icon of the entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in late and post-Byzantine icon-painting. Part 3 The Cretan Painter at Work: The icon trade in 15th-century Venetian Crete; Workshop practices and working drawings of icon-painters; On the technology of post-Byzantine icons; Epilogue; Index.

Maria Vassilaki is Associate Professor of the History of Byzantine Art at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and Scientific Advisor at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

• Contents: Part 1 The Painter Angelos: The painter Angelos Akotantos: his work and his will (1436); New evidence on the painter Angelos Akotantos; From the 'anonymous' Byzantine artist to the 'eponymous' Cretan painter of the 15th century; Painting and painters in Venetian Crete; St Phanourios: cult and iconography; A Cretan icon in the Ashmolean: the embrace of Peter and Paul; A Cretan icon of St George; An icon of St George on horseback killing the dragon by the painter Angelos: a recent acquisition of the Benaki Museum; The hand of Angelos? Part 2 On Cretan Painting: Some observations on early 15th century painting in Crete; Some Cretan icons in the Walters Art Gallery; The reconstruction a triptych; An icon of the entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in late and post-Byzantine icon-painting. Part 3 The Cretan Painter at Work: The icon trade in 15th-century Venetian Crete; Workshop practices and working drawings of icon-painters; On the technology of post-Byzantine icons; Epilogue; Index.