Art historian of Marxist-methodology and historian of visual ideology; El Greco scholar and Professor, El Greco Centre, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon, Crete. Hadjinicolaou studied art history at the Universities of Berlin, Freiberg and Munich. In 1965, he moved to Paris where he continued study under Pierre Francastel (q.v.), the philosopher and the director of the École pratique des hautes études, Lucien Goldmann (1913-1970) and the historian Pierre Vilar (1906-2003). His thesis, written for a class on "La lutte des classes en France dans la production d'images de l'année 1830," became his 1973 book Histoire de l'art et lutte des classes. Its English translation Art History and Class Struggle,1978, burst on the academic scene as one of the clearest Marxist counter-approaches to the traditional practice of art history. Hadjinicolaou had written it as such, pointed, he wrote, to address the crisis in teaching art history in universities. He became Professor, El Greco Centre, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon, Crete. His class-view of art history moderated only slightly in the intervening years. His 1999 essay for an exhibition on El Greco was, "El Greco Invested with Nationalist Ideologies."