The Byzantine wall of Dinos Christianopoulos. A lost Palaiologan gatehouse in Thessaloniki.

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Published: Oct 25, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.10681
Keywords:
Late Byzantine period Palaiologan period Thessaloniki Hagia Sophia topography architecture gatehouses painting Christ the Saviour.
Γιάννης ΘΕΟΧΑΡΗΣ
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
Abstract
The article identifies a lost Byzantine monument of Thessaloniki (depicted in Oreste Tafrali’s Topographie de Thessalonique) along with a Byzantine wall, the description of which we owe to the poet Dinos Christianopoulos. The wall in question formed the facade of a gatehouse of an unknown monastery, located north of the Hagia Sophia church and south of Egnatia Street. The wall, though it had been declared a registered monument in 1926, was probably demolished in 1960. From this lost monument comes a large painting depicting Christ, which is now preserved in the Hagiasma of Hagios Iōannes Prodromos, south of Hagia Sophia. This painting, once known in the city as ‘ho Megas Sotēr’, seems to preserve a Byzantine layer.
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