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Welcome to my website, where you can read some basic information about the Byzantine hagiography, see some portable icons, and read my CV.
The Byzantine hagiography has her roots in the Byzantine mosaics, and in funereal portraits the later Hellenistic years.
Initially, churches were decorated with mosaics on a gold background. Later, however (10 th century), the mosaics were replaced by the frescoes, which was simpler and less costly, but alongside the fresco, and developed the technique of small portable images on wood.
During the Byzantine history, went through many divisions and disputes as to the role of (Iconoclasm), and reached the big boom, during the era of Komninon and Palaiologos Emperors.
In the 14th century, there were two trends in hagiography, two schools, the Macedonian and the Cretan, which also finally prevailed, and expanded up to Russia as well as in the eminent monasteries of Athos.
For the history, we report that the oldest picture is Virgin with baby Christ, known as Virgin Mary of Vlantimir, and the best known Russian painter, is Andrei Roumpliof.
Most important Greeks hagiographers were Emmanouil Panselinos and Theofanis Kris, and in modern Greece Fotis Kontoglou.