In Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, Mr. Dukas, who had received a Yale University Art School fellowship, conducted field study and analysis of Byzantine monuments in Greece, Italy and Turkey. … It's an art that transcends nationalities and speaks to everyone." After graduating in 1951 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mr. It has elements of Cubism, Expressionism, it has everything. It's a religious art, but it prefigures modern art. At first I said, 'Well, at least this is a way to make a living, then I can do my own thing.' But then this became my own thing." He added: "It's a great art. It was vernacular which blew my mind, I found an identity with it. "But when I actually saw Byzantine art - I had only seen some pseudo-Byzantine art - I was overwhelmed. Dukas said that a priest and friend suggested that he become a religious painter and that he took his inspiration from El Greco, who early in life had painted icons.
"He was also deeply religious and said, 'I feel like God is moving my hand when I paint.'" In a 1988 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Mr. "He had a keen interest in Byzantine art and was drawn to icons because he felt they were used to help people with prayer and reflection," said a niece, Melanie Dukas of Saugus, Mass. His artistic talents became evident early, and he began drawing portraits when he was 9 years old. Dukas was born and raised in Lynn, Mass., where he graduated in 1947 from Lynn English High School. Demetrius James Dukas, a world-renowned Byzantine iconographer who decorated churches with mosaics and paintings in the United States and abroad, died June 17 from complications of an infection at his home in Bowie.
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