Dionysius of Phourna

Dionysius of Phourna (* around 1670 in Phourna / Evritania, today Sterea Ellas, Etolia, Central Greece; † after 1744) was a Greek painter and priest monk ( Hieromonachos ).

Dionysios lived from the age of 16 until 1734 in Karyes on Mount Athos as a painter monk, where he had students. Its icons and wall paintings are said to be of mediocre quality. Four letters, 18 epigrams and two liturgical texts from his pen have been preserved. However, he has become famous as the author or compiler of a painter's book , known under the secondary title painter's book from Mount Athos or Hermeneia .

Works

Icons

Some of his icons have been preserved on Mount Athos, in Dominianoi / Evritaneia and Phourna, such as wall paintings on Mount Athos (in Karies from 1711 and in the Dochiariou monastery from 1721), as well as in the Basilios Church in Retina / Thessaly.

Fonts

• The manual of painting from Mount Athos . Translated from the handwritten modern Greek original by Adolph Napoléon Didron. Lintz, Trier 1855 ( digitized version ).
• Painting manual of the painter monk Dionysios from Mount Athos. Translated by Godehard Schäfer. Slavic Institute, Munich 1960, reprint 1983.

literature

• Konstantinos Thiseos Dimaras : Theophanous tou ex Agraphon bios Dionysiou tou ek Phourna. In: Hellenika. Philologikon, historikon kai laographikon periodikon syngramma , vol. 10 (1937/1938), pp. 213-272.
• Chr. Chatzithanos: Dionysiou Ieromonachou, Kodix tis ieras monis Zoodochos Pigis tou Fourna ton Agrafon meth 'istorikis exigiseos tou topou. Athens 1938.
• Andreas Xyngopoulos: Tessares phoretai eikones tou Dionysiou. In: Hellenika. Philologikon, historikon kai laographikon periodikon syngramma , vol. 10 (1937/1938), pp. 273-279.
• Ivan Bentchev: Dionysios ek Fourna. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL), Vol. 27. Saur, Munich-Leipzig 2000, pp. 516-518.