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Vrondisi Monastery
The Vrondisi Monastery is situated 4 km west of Zaros on the slope towards the Rouvas wood.The monastery is thought to be founded as early as the second Byzantine period, but did not reach its great period until the last centuries (16th-17th century) of the Venetian period. This period is also called the Cretan renaissance because the cultural life at that time began to flourish, and well-known artists such as Michail Damaskinos and El Greco (Dominikos Theotokopoulos) painted their unsurpassed icons which united Byzantine and Venetian art of painting.The former painted six of his icons in precisely the Vrondisi monastery where they were until the year 1800 when the metropolitis of Crete, Gerasimos Pardalis, moved them to the Agios Minas church in Iraklion in order to save them in future as the monastery at that time was deserted.Today they are at the icon museum in the Agia Aikaterini Sinaiton church (also in Iraklion).
Vrondisi Monastery
The Vrondisi Monastery is situated 4 km west of Zaros on the slope towards the Rouvas wood.The monastery is thought to be founded as early as the second Byzantine period, but did not reach its great period until the last centuries (16th-17th century) of the Venetian period. This period is also called the Cretan renaissance because the cultural life at that time began to flourish, and well-known artists such as Michail Damaskinos and El Greco (Dominikos Theotokopoulos) painted their unsurpassed icons which united Byzantine and Venetian art of painting.The former painted six of his icons in precisely the Vrondisi monastery where they were until the year 1800 when the metropolitis of Crete, Gerasimos Pardalis, moved them to the Agios Minas church in Iraklion in order to save them in future as the monastery at that time was deserted.Today they are at the icon museum in the Agia Aikaterini Sinaiton church (also in Iraklion).