The first Greek graduate art conservator Tasos Margaritof past away at the age of 89 years old. The distinguished scientist held the number one license in the profession. He was born in Athens in 1925 and studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti and maintenance at Instituto Centrale del Restauro Rome, where he excelled. In 1961 he received an honorary fellowship from the Italian Ministry of Education.

Returning to Greece and being the number one holder of the license to practice, he served in the archaeological department of the Ministry of Culture from 1958 to 1992 He was also a member of the Central Archaeological Council and the Council for Modern Monuments. In February of 2001 he was honored by the ICOMOS for his contribution to culture and celebrating cultural heritage of Greece.

Some of his most important works was the conservation of antiquities in Santorini, Vergina, Delos, bleach, Volos, in Aghialos and Vergina where he rescued and the famous red fabric. Also, apart from Greece, he preserved frescoes of early Christian, Byzantine and post-Byzantine years in Italy, the Sinai, Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Holy Land.