A Companion to Latin Greece

348 Georgopoulou Obviously topographical specificities also played a role in urban design. For instance, whereas in Candia the t ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 349 figure 10.5 A griffin carved on the portal of the so-called residence of the baillo across ...

350 Georgopoulou at least since 1588 near the clock tower.66 Clock towers as highly sophisticated instruments that controlled ti ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 351 church of St Mark’s, as can be seen in the plan of Zorzi Corner (Figure 10.7).67 In additio ...

352 Georgopoulou was a fully equipped castle with apartments for the prince and administrative functions to broadcast the seat o ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 353 of the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople by the crusaders reli- gious differenc ...

354 Georgopoulou figure 10.9 Herakleion, Church of St Mark. PHOTO: AUTHOR figure 10.10 Andravida, chevet of St Sophia. PHOTO: AU ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 355 figure 10.11 Herakleion, St Peter the Martyr. Vaulting in the chevet. PHOTOs: AUTHOR ...

356 Georgopoulou which per force refers to distant regional styles. It implies that for the most part the Latin buildings in med ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 357 village churches in the later 13th century also suggests that Latin rule created the socio- ...

358 Georgopoulou construction of a church either individually or in groups, as in the single nave barrel-vaulted church of the H ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 359 in Boeotia, Anthony le Flamenc, commissioned a church in a Byzantine plan (cross-in-square ...

360 Georgopoulou of the sculptural decoration of Cretan churches has a flamboyant “Gothic” flair, especially in the treatment of ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 361 Isthmus, Akrocorinth, Argos, and Patras) as well as the Frankish ones (Akova, Androusa, Kyv ...

362 Georgopoulou Free standing towers on mainland Greece and forts along the coasts of Crete (like the impressive Frangokastello ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 363 On the islands of the Aegean archipelago, special care was given to create the necessary st ...

364 Georgopoulou excavated in Thebes not far from the castle of St Omer,108 and in the area of the Athenian Agora.109 Conclusion ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 365 diachronic development or any kind of assimilation of the imported art into a local idiom c ...

366 Georgopoulou Five churches in the Peloponnese incorporate Gothic and “Gothicising” features in an organic fashion: the katho ...

The Landscape of Medieval Greece 367 When a back-water provincial town gains new life by becoming the seat of government of a ne ...