A Byzantine Painter in Trecento Genoa: The Last Judgment at S.Lorenzo
By Robert S. Nelson
The Art Bulletin, Vol.67:4 (1985)
Abstract: Little-studied frescoes of high quality at the Duomo in Genoa are attributed to a Byzantine painter and to a period of renovation at the cathedral about 1310. Their style compares favorably with the finest work of Constantinople, and their iconography is substantially Byzantine in detail. But as a whole, the content of the Last Judgment is Italian, chiefly Tuscan, and derives from theological concerns of Western Christianity that were not shared with Byzantium. Such a hybrid is characteristically Genoese, from a period when Byzantine artists traveled widely.
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