Antonis Gklinos (Tripoli 1936 – Athens 1998) studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1954- 1958), under the tutelage of Andreas Georgiadis. In 1964, with a state scholarship, he moved to Rome to study at the Central Institute for the Pathology of Archives and Books (ICPAL). Simultaneously, he attended courses in fresco and icon conservation at the Istituto Centrale di Restauro. From 1970 onward, he worked in the field of book and manuscript conservation, initially in France and later in Greece as a special associate of the Ministry of Culture and the Department of Manuscripts and Homotypes of the National Library. In 1988, he became an assistant professor at the School of Conservation and Restoration of Artworks of the T.E.I. Athens, and in 1995, he was elected professor.
Antonis Gklinos organized several conservation workshops for manuscripts (at the Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, the National Library, the State Archives in Athens and Corfu, Mount Athos monasteries, etc.), and was also a painter and conservator of Byzantine and Christian Museum collections. His morphoplastic idiom is characterized by the combination of metaphysical painting types, photorealistic tendencies and a poetic climate, where familiar themes such as ancient statues acquire new content and symbolic implications. He has created frescoes and portable icons in churches in Tripoli and elsewhere. His artistic work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Rome, Bucharest, Sofia, etc.).
Dictionary of Greek Artists (16th – 20th century),
Melissa Editions, Athens 1997-2000 – Masters: Antonis Glinos,
Fotis Zachariou, Exhibition Catalog, Byzantine & Christian Museum, 2006
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