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at the town hall of Athens and frescoes for Zoodochos Peghi at Liopesi (Paiania), the Church of Saint Andrew off Patission Street in Athens, the Metropolitan Church of Evangelismos in Rhodes and the Church of Saint George at Stemnitsa in Arcadia. Churches in Athens frescoes by Kontoglou include Saint
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which, along with the Cretan icon painters in the years after the fall of Constantinople (1453), he considered to be the very best of the Iconographers' work and a model for his own work . Furthermore, he painted frescos in various churches all around Greece; among them the
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George at Kypseli, Saint Haralambos in the park Pedion tou Areos and Saint Nicholas at Kato Patissia. Kontoglou was also the original iconographer of the main iconography at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in Charleston, South Carolina.
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He was raised by his mother, Despoina Kontoglou, and his uncle Stefanos Kontoglou, who was 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
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Kontoglou also wrote various works of literature as well as numerous essays, winning the Academy of Athens Prize for his book Ekphrasis published in 1961, championing orthodoxy but also criticising moves by the then
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Photis Kontoglou was paid at his work was during his residence in Paris, where he received a prize for the illustrations he made for the work of
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in New York City was created by Georgios Gliatas, a student of Kontoglou. Other notable students include Rallis Kopsides.
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Ti Einai he Orthodoxia kai ti Einai ho Papismos (“What Orthodoxy Is and What Papsim Is”) (1964)
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In 1933, he was invited by the Egyptian government to work for the
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church in Athens. He also painted the monumental fresco of the
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Kontoglou was a particularly productive artist. A devout
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Murals in the Municipality of Athens by Kontoglou, 1938.
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Fotis Kontoglou

Greek
Aivali
Athens
icon
Athens School of Fine Arts
Mount Athos
Mytilene
Konstantinos Maleas
Coptic Museum
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Knut Hamsun
Orthodox Christian
Mystras
Kapnikarea
Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople

Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
Patriarch Athenagoras
Ecumenism
"The Life and Writings of Photios Kontoglou"
"SISOE AND ALEXANDER"
"Modernist Icon Co-opted: Backgrounds to Fotis Kontoglou, Artist and Man of Letters"
"Holy Trinity"
the original
"The Byzantine Church with Father John Panagiotou"
"Cathedral History | Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity"
the original

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