Xyngopoulos, Andreas

Date born: 1891

Place Born: Athens, Greece

Date died: 1979

Place died: Athens, Greece

Historian of Byzantine and early Christian Greek art and architecture.  Xyngopoulos studied at the School of Philosophy, University of Athens, graduating in 1924.  At the same time, he joined the Greek archaeological service (1920).  He achieved his dissertation in 1937 from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, working under Charles Diehl and Gabriel Millet.  He continued his work at the archaeological service, primarily in the area of Macedonia, eventually becoming the supervisor (ephor) of Bysantine monutments.  In 1940 he left to become professor of Byzantine archaeology, University of Thessaloniki.  He retired in 1956.  

Xyngopoulos is most known for his discoveries of mosaics in Thessaloniki.  He discovered the 5th- century mosaics at Hosios David and others in the 14th-century Hagioi Apostoloi. 

Home Country: Greece

Sources: KMP, 50 mentioned; Dictionary of Art;  Krauthiemer, Richard.  "Riflessioni sull' architettura paleocristiana."  in Atti del VI Congresso Internationale di Archeologia Cristiana (1962).  Studi di Antichità Cristiana 26: 567-79.

Bibliography:  Manual Panselinos. Copies, Drawings and Ornamental Designs by Photis Zachariou.Athens: Athens' Editions, 1956. The Mosaics of the Church of Saint Demetrius in Thessaloniki.  Thessaloniki : [sn] 1969.  He psephidote diakosmesis tou Naou ton Hagion Apostolon Thessalonikes.  (Makedonike vivliotheke: 16)  Thessaloniki:  Hetaireia Makedonikon Spoudon, 1953;  Thessalonique et la peinture macédonienne. (Hidryma Meleton Chersonesou tou Haimou:  7).  Athens:  M. Myrtidis, 1955.

Subject's name: Andreas Xyngopoulos