Greek, 17th century, male.
Died 1632.
Engraver.
This artist was a Roman Catholic monk who came to Europe from Jerusalem, initially to Lemberg (now Lviv) and later to Kiev, where he was employed as an supervisor in a printing works. The wood engravings of religious subjects with which he illustrated works by himself and others have a high standing in Ruthenian art....
Greek, 16th century, male.
Active in Otrantoc.1500.
Painter. Religious subjects.
Berlin: Descent from the Cross
Naples: St George
Greek, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1768, in Zákinthos; died 1834, at Zákinthos.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits.
Cantunis was the pupil of Nicolas Cutuzis, and also studied in Venice.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
Zakinthos (MA)
Greek, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born c. 1558, in Greece (province of Achaia); died c. 1640, in Naples.
Painter, fresco artist, draughtsman. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects. Murals.
This painter came to Italy at the age of twenty-two, after having studied the rudiments of painting in his own country. He became a pupil of Tintoretto in Venice, where he spent five years. He then settled in Naples, where he spent the rest of his days. He was of a very jealous and uncompromising nature and often persecuted his contemporaries: Domenichino suffered particularly from his unpleasant behaviour....
Greek, 20th century, male.
Born in Athens.
Sculptor.
George Demetriades exhibited a Head of Christ at the Salon de la Société Nationale in Paris in 1932.
Greek, 16th–17th century, male.
Active fromc.1576 in Spain.
Born c. 1541, in Heraklion, Crete; died 7 April 1614, in Toledo.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman. Religious subjects, figures, portraits.
Toledo School.
El Greco (‘The Greek’) trained as an icon painter in the Byzantine tradition in his native Crete and spent 10 years in Italy, first in Venice, then Rome. From Italy he went briefly to Madrid, perhaps in search of commissions at the Escorial, and settled in Toledo in the summer of 1577. While there is little documentation of his workshop, his output while in Toledo implies the existence of a large studio, which was taken over after El Greco’s death by his son, Jorge Manuel Theotocopuli. El Greco was well educated and had a scholar’s library; his annotations in his copy of Giorgio Vasari’s ...
Greek, 19th century, male.
Born 1 March 1842, on Tinos (Cyclades); died 4 January 1901, in Munich.
Painter. Portraits, allegorical subjects, religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, still-lifes.
Nikolaos Gysis trained at the Athens school of fine arts and in 1865 at the Piloty school in Munich. He exhibited several times in Paris and was awarded medals in Munich in 1834 and 1892....
Greek, 19th century, male.
Born 1829, in Chania (Crete); died 1869, in Cairo.
Painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits.
Kunelakis studied in St Petersburg, Rome and Florence.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
Greek, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1741, in Zakynthos; died 1813, in Zakynthos.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits.
Kutuzis was a pupil of Panagiotis Doxaras and studied in Venice.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
Greek, 9th century, male.
Died 867, in Rome.
Painter.
This Greek painter of the Byzantine School suffered persecution under the iconoclastic Emperor Theophilus, who had him flogged for painting religious images. After recovering, the saint continued to paint pictures of the Virgin and Jesus.
Greek, 14th century, male.
Icon painter. Frescoes, church decoration.
Manuel Panselinos was a painter from northern Greece who has long been regarded as living during the 14th century. It seems an established fact that he worked on the decoration of the Protaton church on Mount Athos from ...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1922 and naturalised from 1949.
Born 12 August 1916, in Istanbul, to Greek parents; died 23 October 1985, in Eygalières, France.
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman (including ink/wash), sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, scenes with figures, landscapes, mountainscapes, landscapes with figures, harbour scenes...
Greek, 17th century, male.
Active during the second half of the 17th century.
Born in Chania, Crete.
Painter. Church decoration.
Theodoros Pulakis studied under Elias Moschos. He worked in Zakynthos, Kaphallonia, Egina and Athens.
1st century, male.
Active in Athens.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Sosibius is represented by a vase in the Louvre in Paris, showing a procession in a religious festival.
Greek, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1871, in Vasiliko; died 29 December 1929.
Painter. Religious subjects. Murals.
Soutzos studied in Athens. He painted religious subjects, frescoes and decorative works in churches.
Greek, 20th century, male.
Born 1902, in Galaxidhion.
Painter, illustrator. Religious subjects. Murals, church decoration.
Spyros Vassiliou studied at the fine art school in Athens where he lived and worked. He was appointed to teach at the Papastratou Vocational College in 1930. His entire work was influenced by Byzantine art and Greek popular art, which moved towards poetic Surrealism....
