Dionysis Mourelatos
Dionysis Mourelatos read History and Archaeology at the University of
Athens. He was awarded an MA in Byzantine Art and Archaeology and a Phd
(2009) in the same field also at the University of Athens. His phd
thesis was entitled "Icon:its placement and function. Developing an
electronic thesaurus of terms". Since 2009 he teaches at the
Postgraduate program of the University of Athens "Managing the
monuments: Archaeology, Urban Planning and Architecture". Moreover, he
teaches or he has taught at the Department of Conservation of
Antiquities and works of Art at TEI Athens, at the Department of Primary
School Education at the University of Thessaly, Greek Art and
Architecture at the Hellenic Open University and at the Ionian
University. He has worked in many research projects for Vrijes
Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Athens, the Ionian University,
the Mount Sinai Foundation in Athens and the Monastery of Saint
Catherine's at Sinai. He has written and presented several papers
concerning mostly Sinai and the Historiography of Byzantine Art and
Archaeology.
Athens. He was awarded an MA in Byzantine Art and Archaeology and a Phd
(2009) in the same field also at the University of Athens. His phd
thesis was entitled "Icon:its placement and function. Developing an
electronic thesaurus of terms". Since 2009 he teaches at the
Postgraduate program of the University of Athens "Managing the
monuments: Archaeology, Urban Planning and Architecture". Moreover, he
teaches or he has taught at the Department of Conservation of
Antiquities and works of Art at TEI Athens, at the Department of Primary
School Education at the University of Thessaly, Greek Art and
Architecture at the Hellenic Open University and at the Ionian
University. He has worked in many research projects for Vrijes
Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Athens, the Ionian University,
the Mount Sinai Foundation in Athens and the Monastery of Saint
Catherine's at Sinai. He has written and presented several papers
concerning mostly Sinai and the Historiography of Byzantine Art and
Archaeology.
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should not be considered as an “icon”, an object of piety, but rather as a “royal panel”. It was
a gift from King Davit of Georgia, possibly to the Georgian monks of the monastery of Sinai
direct, or to a monastery in Jerusalem whence it later ended up at Sinai, where there was also
a strong Georgian monastic community. In addition, the iconographical motifs in the king’s
clothing are analysed, as are the motifs in the armor of St. George, in relation to the content of
the two extensive inscriptions on the painting (one in Greek and one in Georgian).