Thessalonian painters in the eighteenth century : a preliminary study

Abstract

In this article the author presents the preliminary data he has
collected on: a) eighteenth-century painters who were natives of
Thessaloniki, irrespective of where they actually worked; b) painters
who were not natives of the city but who lived and worked there; c)
any other relevant information about painting in eighteenth-century
Thessaloniki.
The known eighteenth - century painters are: Gabriel (1702),
Theodore (1702), the hieromonk Nikiphoros (surviving work dated
1709), Apostolis Longianos Vodeniotis (1755, 1766, 1768), Michael of
Thessaloniki (1760) or Michael the Thessalonian (1785), Chrysanthos
the archimandrite of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki (1763), Makarios
of Veria the archdeacon of the Metropolis of Thessaloniki (1763),
and Hadži Djordje Petrovič (1797). The anonymous painters include the artist who painted the iconostasis
of Peć (1722, 1724), and the painters of four, now lost, icons
in St Nicholas’s Church at Irig (before 1733) and the two large icons
from the Church of St Stephen at Sremska Mitrovica (before 1733).