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flourished. His contemporary at the time was the painter David both artists belong to a class of their own. His student and coworker was famous Greek painter
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around the church. Although the work is not original, nor designed to be original, the description of each scene is probably from
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subjects, and suggested images. The third part describes the locations in a church for each depiction. The manuscript survives in more than twenty-five instances.
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The greek text of the 'Interpretation of
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Painters after the Fall of Constantinople (1450-1830). Volume 1: Averkios - Iosif
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Dionysios was also the author of a famous manual on painting.
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