Focus on The Prophet Jonah (Stavrakis) and discuss the History.
The materials used were egg tempera paint on a wood panel.  The height is 42.8 cm (16.8 in) and the width is 37 cm (14.5 in).  The painting was taken from the church Agios Spyridon Flampouriaris.  Another painting with the use of similar colored paint was also taken from the same church called The Miracle of Saint Spyridon.  
Both paintings were painted with a distinct blue color.  Ioannis Kornaros used blue in his famous painting entitled Great Art Thou (Megas Ei Kyrie).  Blue was rarely used by Cretan Renaissance painters.  Greek artists of the later periods also avoided blue.The whale is larger in the Sadeler engraving.  The figure of Jonah also takes up more of the engraving than Stavraki's painting.  In Stavraki's painting, a boat is traveling in the middle ground. In the background of the painting, the boat is clearly sinking and a large whale head protrudes from the water.  In the foreground, the story ends with Jonah regurgitated from the whale's mouth.
Clearly, the painting animates the landscape with brilliant shades of blue.  The artist imbues change with his advanced knowledge of spatial depth and deeper space.  The work escapes the maniera greca and enforces enhanced three-dimensionality.  The natural figure draws from the Greek mythological God Poseidon (Neptune).  Jonah is a sculpturesque, simple and weighty figure.  The whale is painted in superlative detail.  The artist uses shadows to accentuate dimensionality.
Cretan Renaissance Ioannis Kornaros God Sadeler Kornaros Jonah Poseidon maniera greca