{"id":1189,"date":"2017-04-01T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/2017\/04\/01\/3410\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:55:12","slug":"3410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/online-necrology\/3410\/","title":{"rendered":"Charalambos Bouras, 1933\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 27 July 2016, Professor Emeritus Charalambos Bouras passed away, leaving behind an incomparable legacy of important scholarly contributions. His impressive output in the history of ancient and medieval architecture of Greece\u2014his field of specialization and teaching at the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1966\u20131974) and the National Technical University of Athens (1974\u20132000)\u2014is equaled by his formative role in the scientific field of preservation and restoration of architectural monuments. As a practitioner and teacher of historic preservation, Bouras is credited with having shaped the generation of specialists active in architectural restoration in Greece today. It is not an exaggeration to state that around Bouras\u2019 personality pivots an internationally radiant \u201cschool\u201d of practitioners\u2014all his students\u2014currently active in the domain of architectural preservation and restoration. The empirical testing ground of this school is the exemplary restoration of the Athenian Acropolis monuments, which began in the 1970s and to which Bouras contributed first as a member and then as chair of the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis monuments (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01.jpg\">fig. 1<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01.jpg\" alt=\"Fig. 1. Charalambos Bouras on the Athenian Acropolis (courtesy Vasiliki Eleftheriou, Acropolis Restoration Service).\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01.jpg 706w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 1. Charalambos Bouras on the Athenian Acropolis (courtesy Vasiliki Eleftheriou, Acropolis Restoration Service).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This project bears his indelible thumbprint and will be celebrated as his life\u2019s work for a long time to come. No less important, however, are a host of other projects of preservation and restoration throughout Greece (e.g., the marble iconostasis of the Nea Moni at Chios, the odeion of Herodes Atticus in Athens, and the restoration of the <em>trapeza<\/em> [refectory] at the monastery of Hosios Loukas in Boeotia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1957, following an Architect Engineer degree at the National Technical University of Athens (Polytechneion), Bouras joined the Greek Archaeological Service as a member of the Directorate of Restoration of Ancient and Historic Monuments. In this role, he undertook the study and restoration of the fifth-century B.C.E. stoa at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron (1961\u20131962), an exemplary work that embodies his deep knowledge of archaeology, his philosophy of restoration, and his principles of intervention (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 2. Restored stoa at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. View from the east (courtesy Eleni Hasaki).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02.jpg\">fig. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02.jpg\" alt=\"Fig. 2. Restored stoa at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. View from the east (courtesy Eleni Hasaki).\" class=\"wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-02-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 2. Restored stoa at the Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. View from the east (courtesy Eleni Hasaki).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last are premised on the application of interdisciplinary methodologies for the painstakingly detailed documentation of a monument and its needs before intervention; the formulation of clear structural, pedagogical, and aesthetic goals in tandem with clearly laid out strategies and plans of intervention; the principle of reversibility of any addition or intervention to the structural fabric of a historic monument; and the imperative to publish scientifically all research conducted in preparation for the restoration and preservation of a monument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time of his appointment at the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Bouras had achieved the rare distinction of having completed two doctoral degrees. In 1964, he received a doctorate in the history of art from the Universit\u00e9 de Paris (\u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes) under the supervision of Andr\u00e9 Grabar.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1189\" id=\"identifier_1_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bouras 1964.\">1<\/a><\/sup> In 1966, he received a second doctorate from the Polytechnic School of Thessaloniki.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_1189\" id=\"identifier_2_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bouras 1965.\">2<\/a><\/sup> His two dissertations, along with his monograph on the stoa of Brauron,<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_1189\" id=\"identifier_3_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bouras 1967.\">3<\/a><\/sup> stand at the beginning of a prolific publication record that has shed original light on a variety of monuments and on problems of archaeology and architectural history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras\u2019 field of expertise extended from classical antiquity to Byzantium and modern Greece. He coauthored (with Korres) the first volume on the restoration of the Parthenon<sup><a href=\"#footnote_4_1189\" id=\"identifier_4_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Korres and Bouras 1983.\">4<\/a><\/sup> and also is author or coauthor of a plethora of scholarly articles on the restoration work of the Acropolis monuments. His contributions to the study of medieval architecture and the urbanism of Greece are too numerous to be included here, but his monographs on the history and architecture of Nea Moni at Chios and on 12th-century church architecture in Greece stand out as seminal contributions to the field of architectural history.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_5_1189\" id=\"identifier_5_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bouras 1981; Bouras and Boura 2002.\">5<\/a><\/sup> More recently, he published important studies on the architecture of the monastery of Hosios Loukas in Boeotia (<a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Fig. 3. Trapeza of the monastery of Hosios Loukas, Steiri, Boeotia. View of restored interior (courtesy Alexandra Charami, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03.jpg\">fig. 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone fancybox\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03.jpg\" alt=\"Fig. 3. Trapeza of the monastery of Hosios Loukas, Steiri, Boeotia. View of restored interior (courtesy Alexandra Charami, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia).\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ajaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1212_Papalexandrou_Fig-03-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig. 3. Trapeza of the monastery of Hosios Loukas, Steiri, Boeotia. View of restored interior (courtesy Alexandra Charami, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and on aspects of topography, urbanism, and architecture in medieval Athens.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_6_1189\" id=\"identifier_6_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Bouras 2010; Bouras et al. 2015.\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A gentleman in mind and spirit, Bouras was a man of low tones who cared deeply about the study, preservation, and restoration of the monumental heritage of Greece from antiquity to the present. His academic teaching set new standards for the scholarly analysis of historic monuments, not least through the institutionalization of rigorous graduate programs and the founding of the Historic Archive of Monuments at the Polytechneion of Athens. He was judiciously and constructively critical of his students and associates and steered the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments with patience and sound judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his career, Bouras worked with zeal as a member of the Central Archaeological Council of Greece and the administrative committee of the Benaki Museum. He was also a member of the committees that oversaw restoration work on monuments at Epidauros as well as the Temple of Apollo Epicourios at Bassae. He was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Serbia and of the German Archaeological Institute. He has received multiple honors, most notably the Medal of the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix of Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras\u2019 pioneering contributions to his field and to Greek society in general are far-reaching. They are succinctly epitomized by Korres\u2019 characterization of Bouras as a \u201c\u1fddH\u03c1\u03c9\u03c2 K\u03c4\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2\u201d (founding hero).<sup><a href=\"#footnote_7_1189\" id=\"identifier_7_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Korres 2016, 29 July.\">7<\/a><\/sup> This is an apt characterization for an exceptional man who combined the resilience of a hero with the intelligent vision of a founder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nassos Papalexandrou<br>Department of Art and Art History<br>The University of Texas at Austin<br>2301 San Jacinto Boulevard<br>Campus D 1300<br>Austin, Texas 78712\u20131421<br>papalex@austin.utexas.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Works Cited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C. 1964. \u201cLes portes et les fen\u00eatres en architecture byzantine: \u00c9tude sur leur morphologie, leur construction et leur iconographie.\u201d Ph.D. diss., Universit\u00e9 de Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C. 1965. <em>\u0392\u03c5\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u1f00 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b8\u1f40\u03bb\u03b9\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b5\u03c5\u03c1\u1f60\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2<\/em>. D\u0113mosieumata tou Archaiologikou deltiou 5. Athens: \u03a5\u03c0\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1 \u0391\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c4\u03ae\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u0391\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bb\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C. 1967. <em>\u0397 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u1f20\u03bb\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u1f00\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u0392\u03c1\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u1f60\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2<\/em>. D\u0113mosieumata tou Archaiologikou deltiou 11. Athens: \u03a5\u03c0\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1 \u0391\u03c1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c4\u03ae\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u0391\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bb\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C. 1981. <em>\u0397 \u039d\u1f10\u03b1 \u039c\u03bf\u03bd\u1f20 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03a7\u1f30\u03bf\u03c5<\/em><em>:<\/em><em> \u0399\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u1f30\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u1f20<\/em><em>. <\/em>Athens: Publication of the Commercial Bank of Greece for Emporike Trapeza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C. 2010. <em>\u0392\u03c5\u03b6\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u1f20 \u0391\u03b8\u1f20\u03bd\u03b1<\/em>. \u0391thens: Benake Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C., and L. Boura. 2002. <em>\u0397 \u03b5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f20 \u03bd\u03b1\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u1f30\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1f00 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd 12o \u03b1\u03b9\u1f60\u03bd\u03b1.<\/em> Athens: Emporike Trapeza tes Hellados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bouras, C., R.W. Schultz, and S. Barnsley. 2015. <em>\u0397 \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u1f20 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u039c\u03bf\u03bd\u1f20\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u039f\u03c3\u1f30\u03bf\u03c5 \u039b\u03bf\u03c5\u03ba\u1f00<\/em><em>. <\/em>Athens: Melissa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korres, M. 2016, 29 July. \u201cFarewell to Professor Bouras\u201d (in Greek). <em>Acropolis Restoration Service<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysma.gr\/news\/apoxairetismos-ston-ka8hghth-xaralampo-mpoyra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ysma.gr\/news\/apoxairetismos-ston-ka8hghth-xaralampo-mpoyra<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Korres, M., and C. Bouras. 1983. <em>\u039c\u03b5\u03bb\u1f10\u03c4\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u1f00\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd\u1f60\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2<\/em>. Athens: Ministry of Culture and Sciences: Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Bouras 1964.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_1_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Bouras 1965.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_2_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Bouras 1967.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_3_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_4_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Korres and Bouras 1983.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_4_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_5_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Bouras 1981; Bouras and Boura 2002.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_5_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_6_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Bouras 2010; Bouras et al. 2015.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_6_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_7_1189\" class=\"footnote\">Korres 2016, 29 July.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_7_1189\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 July 2016, Professor Emeritus Charalambos Bouras passed away, leaving behind an incomparable legacy of important scholarly contributions. 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