Saints Constantine and Helen
Dublin Core
Title
Saints Constantine and Helen
Άγιοι Κωνσταντίνος και Ελένη
Subject
Description
By the artist Fotis Kontoglou (1895 – 1965)
Oil painting on wood. 20 x 70 cm
An oil painting of the portraits of Saint Constantine and his mother Saint Helen painted circularly at either end of a detailed carved piece of wood and conjoined by a grave vine. It is a part of an iconostasis (a wall of icons and religious paintings).
Photis Kontoglou (Greek: Φώτης Κόντογλου, the pen name of Φώτιος Αποστολέλης (Photios Apostolelis); Aivali, 8 November 1895 – Athens, 13 July 1965) was a Greek writer, painter and icon painter. He was raised by his mother, Despoina Kontoglou, and his uncle Stefanos Kontoglou, who was an Abbot in the nearby monastery of Aghia Paraskevi. He spent his childhood among the monastery, the sea and the fishermen. In 1913, he enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 1923, he stayed for some time at the monasteries of Mount Athos, where he discovered the technique of Byzantine iconography.Two years later, he got married with Maria Hatzikambouri, who was also from Aivali.
In 1933, he was invited by the Egyptian government to work for the Copt Museum. However, he decided to stay in Athens and taught painting classes at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Among his students were some of the most important modern Greek painters.
Photis Kontoglou during his residence in Paris he received a prize for the illustrations he made for the work of Knut Hamsun Famine. However, it was his illustrations for his own book, Pedro Kazas, that made him famous.
Kontoglou was a particularly productive artist. A devout Orthodox Christian, he undertook the restoration of the frescos of the Perivleptos church in Mystras. Furthermore, he painted frescos in various churches all around Greece; among them the Kapnikarea church in Athens. He also painted the monumental fresco of the Patriarchs of Constantinople at the town hall of Athens.
The iconography on the dome and other areas of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City was created by Georgios Gliatas, a student of Kontoglou.
Kontoglou also wrote various works of literature as well as numerous essays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photis_Kontoglou
Οι « Άγιοι Κωνσταντίνος και Ελένη », Φώτης Κόντογλου (1896-1957), Λάδι σε ξύλο, 20 x 70 εκ.
Λεπτομέρεια από ξυλόγλυπτο τέμπλο ( εικονοστάσιο ).
Oil painting on wood. 20 x 70 cm
An oil painting of the portraits of Saint Constantine and his mother Saint Helen painted circularly at either end of a detailed carved piece of wood and conjoined by a grave vine. It is a part of an iconostasis (a wall of icons and religious paintings).
Photis Kontoglou (Greek: Φώτης Κόντογλου, the pen name of Φώτιος Αποστολέλης (Photios Apostolelis); Aivali, 8 November 1895 – Athens, 13 July 1965) was a Greek writer, painter and icon painter. He was raised by his mother, Despoina Kontoglou, and his uncle Stefanos Kontoglou, who was an Abbot in the nearby monastery of Aghia Paraskevi. He spent his childhood among the monastery, the sea and the fishermen. In 1913, he enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 1923, he stayed for some time at the monasteries of Mount Athos, where he discovered the technique of Byzantine iconography.Two years later, he got married with Maria Hatzikambouri, who was also from Aivali.
In 1933, he was invited by the Egyptian government to work for the Copt Museum. However, he decided to stay in Athens and taught painting classes at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Among his students were some of the most important modern Greek painters.
Photis Kontoglou during his residence in Paris he received a prize for the illustrations he made for the work of Knut Hamsun Famine. However, it was his illustrations for his own book, Pedro Kazas, that made him famous.
Kontoglou was a particularly productive artist. A devout Orthodox Christian, he undertook the restoration of the frescos of the Perivleptos church in Mystras. Furthermore, he painted frescos in various churches all around Greece; among them the Kapnikarea church in Athens. He also painted the monumental fresco of the Patriarchs of Constantinople at the town hall of Athens.
The iconography on the dome and other areas of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City was created by Georgios Gliatas, a student of Kontoglou.
Kontoglou also wrote various works of literature as well as numerous essays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photis_Kontoglou
Οι « Άγιοι Κωνσταντίνος και Ελένη », Φώτης Κόντογλου (1896-1957), Λάδι σε ξύλο, 20 x 70 εκ.
Λεπτομέρεια από ξυλόγλυπτο τέμπλο ( εικονοστάσιο ).
Source
Charalambos Christoforou Collection
Συλλογή Χαράλαμπου Χριστοφόρου
“Μεγάλοι και Μικροί Δασκάλοι της Νεολληνικής Ζωγραφικής”, επιμέλεια Μάνος Στεφανίδης, James Χριστοφόρου, Alpha Art Publications, Βρυξέλλες, 2009
Publisher
Library of Cyprus University of Technology
Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology
Date
Rights
Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού.
Relation
http://christianart-gallery.com/shop/christian-art/vertical-icon-2/
Format
JPG
Language
en
el
Type
Identifier
CHART_CA_ (229)_(229a)_(229b)
Coverage
35.160253, 33.369239
Files
Citation
Fotis Kontoglou and Φώτης Κόντογλου, “Saints Constantine and Helen,” Αψίδα, accessed April 24, 2024, https://apsida.cut.ac.cy/items/show/32340.