6/19/2023 0 Comments Theodor greek iconographer![]() ![]() Theodore also taught a “Byzantine art & architecture” course at Toronto Greek Orthodox Seminary, and was been “Guest Lecturer” guide at The Royal Ontario Museum on numerous occasions.įr. Koufos was transferred to a Toronto, Ontario, church and continued to paint many churches, to numerous to list, under many jurisdictions.įr. Theodore taught at local college for three years and was ordained to The Holy Priesthood in 1974.įr. ![]() He received BA and MFA Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, received a teaching assistantship at the State University of South Florida, Tampa, graduating with a Master Degree in Fine Art.įr. where he also studied iconography with the eminent masters Archimandrite Cyprian and Archbishop Alipy. Theodore Koufos was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1940.Īttended Seminary at Holy Trinity Orthodox Monastery, Jordanville, N.Y. He should not be confused with Theophanes the Greek (Feofan Grek), an icon painter who worked in Muscovite Russia in the late fourteenth century.Fr. He uses traditional Byzantine compositions, in a rather austere and powerful manner. His work is more conscious of visual perspective than older Byzantine artists, but he does not use the geometrical perspective schemes by then standard in the West. Some faces are personalised or looking out to the viewer, and his figures are modelled to convey volume. Like most Cretan painters of this date, his work shows some influence from Western painting, but less in his case than with many artists. Two detached wallpaintings attributed to Theophanes are in the Hermitage Museum in Saint St. ![]() Theophanes returned to Crete before his death in 1559. He also did many panel icons, either for iconostases or small portable works. Athos, especially Stavronikita monastery and Lavra, and Meteora which has his earliest dated work, from 1527. Frescoes bearing his signature survive in the Greek monasteries of Mountain. Theophanis Strelitzas (Greek: Θεοφάνης Στρελίτζας), also known as Theophanes the Cretan (Θεοφάνης ο Κρης, "Theophanis of Crete" or Theophanes Bathas (Θεοφάνης Μπαθάς), was a leading icon painter of the Cretan school in the first half of the sixteenth century, and in particular the most important figure in Greek wall-painting of the period. He was born in Heraklion in Crete (date unknown), and no doubt trained there, but all his known work was done in mainland Greece. He should not be confused with Theophanes the Greek (Feofan Grek), an icon painter who worked in Muscovite Russia in the late fourteenth century.įoreign the Byzantine icon painter who worked in Muscovy, see Theophanes the Greek. ![]() ![]()
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