CHRISTOPHER WALTER
On Art Section:
St Demetrius
He was born in 1925. Member of the Assumpsionist congregation, director of the Centre d'études byzantines des Pères assomptionnistes à Athènes. He is well known as an authority on Byzantine iconography.
Main works: Iconographie des conciles dans la tradition Byzantine, (1970), Pictures as Language: How the Byzantines Exploited Them, (2000), Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (2003)
See review by Timothy Dawson.
Related links
On Eikastikon:
Icons of St Demetrius
|
