Artist
Angelos Akotantos
Byzantine Empire, 1400–1457
Angelos Akotantos was a Byzantine Empire Byzantine icon painting painter. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them tempera paintings. Angelos Akotantos was born in Heraklion.
Angelos Akotantos (Greek: Άγγελος Ακοτάντος; 1390–1457) was a Greek painter, educator, and protopsaltis. He painted icons in the maniera greca, at a time when that style was moving away from the traditions of the Byzantine Empire and towards the more refined aesthetic of the Cretan school. Akotantos taught painting to Andreas Pavias, Andreas Ritzos, and Antonios Papadopoulos, and his style influenced later artists such as Georgios Klontzas, Theophanes the Cretan, Michael Damaskinos and El Greco.
Angelos's brother Ioannis was also a famous painter. There are 50 extant paintings reliably attributed to Akotantos, 30 of which bear his signature.
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