Nephew of the Epirote painter Georgios N. Christos, he lived in Heraklion and he was active between 1920 and 1930. He worked as an icon painter.

Azarias Madanian was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1944 to an Armenian father and a Greek mother. In 1962 he was granted a scholarship by the Kaloust Kulbekian Foundation to study Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut. He graduated in 1966 and then, on the same scholarship, he continued his…