Greece Visual Arts

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Greek Artists, List of Paintings

Greek Painters 1450-1830 (Greek Site) A database with more than 800 Entries with examples and Information if available about the Artists

Nikolaos Tsafouris ( d. 1501), icon painter from Crete, The Virgin and St Francis of Assisi, Triptych

Michail Damaskinos

Antonio Vassilacchi (Antonios Vasilakis)

El Greco (Domenikos (Kyriakos) Theotocopoulos or Theotokopoulos )(Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος) ( 5.11.1541 probably born in Phodele near Heraklion on Crete – 7.4.1614 Toledo Spain) a student of Titian, mainly religious oriented paintings (Links) , El Greco , El Greco on Stamps , More Images (Greek Text) Chronological index of El Greco works

"Heptanese School" (Ionian Sea), Introduction of "western art" (italy)

Holy Family, Panagiotis Doxaras

Panagiotis Doxaras (Παναγιώτης Δοξαράς) (1662 Mani -1729 Corfu)

Ieronymos Plakotos (c. 1662 - 1728)

Prophet Daniel, Nikolaos Doxaras

Nikolaos Doxaras (Νικόλαος Δοξαράς) (1706/10 Kalamata - 2.3.1775 Zakynthos) son of Panagiotis Doxaras

Nikolaos Koutouzis (Νικόλαος Κουτούζης ) (1741-1813), Zakynthos

Spyridon Ventouras (1761-1835) Fine Arts in Corfu

Nikolaos Kantounis (Νικόλαος Καντούνης ) (1767 – 1834) The pharmacist Dikopoulos, Self Portrait

Paul Prosalentis (or Prossalentis) (Παύλος Προσαλέντης) (1784 Corfu -1837) sculptor, painter studied in Canova's workshop (Rome)

Konstantinos Fanellis (Κωνσταντίνος Φανέλλης) (1791 — 1863)

Hebe, Demeter Laccataris

Demeter Laccataris (1798—-1864)

Athanasios Iatridis (1798-1866)

Greece with her "children", 1858

Anagnostopoulos, T. Vryzakis

Theodoros P. Vryzakis (Θεόδωρος Βρυζάκης) (1814 Theben Boeotia – 6.12.1878 * Munich Germany) The Camp of Karaiskakis , The sortie from Missolonghi, The Oath Being Taken in the Church of Aghia Lavra Παρηγοριά The destruction of Dramalis in Dervenakia, (Examples), (Info in Greek) * Old Calendar

Dionysios Tsokos (Διονύσιος Τσόκος)(1820 Zakynthos–1862 Athens) , Theoklitos Farmakidis, Filiki Etaireia, Kapodistrias

Panagiotis Zografos
Battle of Lagkados, Kompoti and Peta	Fall of Constantinople	Battles of Argos Agionorio Korinthos
The fair decision of God for the liberation of Greece	Battles of Greeks in Karpenisi and Kaliakouda	War in Vasilika
First Battle of Athens	Battle in the Chani tis Gravias	Battle of Tripolitsa
Battles in Peta	A. The Battle of the Greeks against the Turks at the bridge of Alamana, B at Agia Marina in Stylida, C at Patrakitsi	Sea Battles of the Greeks

Panagiotis Zografos (Vordonya/Sparta) Pseudonym of a painter working for General Makrygiannis to paint a set of pictures illustrating the main events of the Greek War of Independence. http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/gennadius/English/Makriy.htm

Zografos produced 25 paintings. Except the paintings on wood copies were produced by Zografos and his 2 sons given to the King Otto of Greece, the Russian Tsar, the King of France and Queen Viktoria (these paintings now in Windsor Palace)

Dionysios Veyias (1819-1884) engravings, icons

Vikentios Lantsas ( Βικέντιος Λάντσας)( 1822 Venice - 1902 Athens ), Parthenon , Zeus Temple

Nikolaos Typaldos Xydias ( Νικόλαος Ξυδιάς )(1828 Lixouri -February 1909 Athens) Nymphs of the Forrest, Portrait of Timoleon Philemon , Info

Nyx Ioannis Kossos, 1864, L. Dimitrakopoulos collection 1951

Ioannis Kossos (Ιωάννης Κόσσος )(1822 Tripolis - 29/30 .8.1873 Athens) son of Petros Kossos, brother of Dimitris Kossos, E. Zappas statue , Statues of Rigas Feraios, A. Korais, A. Ypsilantis, F. Guilford, Lord Byron, Patriarch Gregorius V, I. Kapodistrias, F. Hastings, Th. Kolokotronis, K. Mavromichalis, Zeus, Ajax, Apollo Belvedere,...

Nikolaos Kounelakis Paintings, Images

Nikolaos Kounelakis (1829-1869)

Nikiforos Lytras (Νικηφόρος Λύτρας) (1832 Tinos – 14.6.1904), Autoportrait, Awaiting , (Examples)

An Overview of Greek Painting in the 19th c.

Konstantinos Volanakis, Paintings, Images,

Konstantinos Volanakis (Κωνσταντίνος Βολανάκης) (1837 Herakleion/Crete – 29.6.1907 Peiraeus) Out of the Port , The Harbor of Volos, The Return of the Argonauts (Η επιστροφή των Αργοναυτών)

Wood-chopper (Ο ξυλοθραύστης) (1875), Zappeio Athens

Dimitrios Philippotis (Δημήτριος Φιλιππότης)(1839 Tinos – 28.11.1919 Athens) , Sculptor Xylothrafstis (Ο ξυλοθραύστης )(Wood-chopper) , Ο Ψαράς (The Fisherman) Info

Georgios Vitalis (Γεώργιος Βιτάλης) (1840 Tinos -1901) Sculptor, (like Giorgos Phytalis, who had a similar name, he and many other sculptors were from Tinos)

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