Burning in Hell: Representations of Hell and Its Inhabitants on Venetian Crete (1211–1669), lecture by Angeliki Lymberopoulou (The Open University), Senate House, London, March 27, 2018, 6:00 pm

The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, in association with The Friends of the British School at Athens, welcomes Dr. Angeliki Lymberopoulou (The Open University), who the SPBS spring lecture Burning in Hell: Representations of Hell and Its Inhabitants on Venetian Crete (1211–1669).

Angeliki Lymberopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University. She joined the Open University in April 2004 from the National Gallery in London, where she worked across the collections as a Dossiers Assistant. Her research interests focus on Venetian Crete (1211-1669), particularly the artistic production (i.e. icons and wall paintings), the demand (i.e. market), its social context (i.e. the artists and their hybrid clientele), and the cross-cultural influences between Byzantine East and (mainly Italian) West. She also examines late – Palaiologan – Byzantine art (1261-1453) produced in the major artistic centres during the last phase of the empire – Constantinople, Thessaloniki and Mystras.