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Christ Enthroned is a tempera icon by Emmanuel Tzanes, a Greek painter of the Late Cretan School. It is currently at the Byzantine & Christian Museum in Athens.Tzanes was active for most of the 17th century, and has left 130 extant works. Born in Rethymno, Crete, he migrated to Corfu around 1646. In the 1650s he moved again, to Venice, where he became the priest of San Giorgio dei Greci.Depictions of Christ enthroned were common among Italian and Greek Byzantine painters, who produced many versions of the theme. Tzanes's composition includes symbols of the Four Evangelists around the throne, making it a notable example of a pairing which occurs frequently in paintings of the Cretan and Heptanese Schools. Angelos Akotantos gathered together Jesus and the Evangelists themselves in his 15th-century painting Christ the Vine; the Evangelists' symbols appear in the Enthroned Christs of Spyridon Ventouras and Stylianos Devaris.
Heptanese School Cretan Heptanese icon Emmanuel Tzanes Angelos Akotantos Four Evangelists Ventouras Angelos Spyridon Ventouras Cretan School Byzantine & Christian Museum San Giorgio dei Greci Late Cretan School Stylianos Devaris Rethymno