Birth Year:, 1518. Death Year:, 1594  Related Paintings of TINTORETTO, Jacopo :. | The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave | The Supper at Emmaus ar | The Voluntary Subjugation of the Provinces | Adam and Eve ar | The Birth of St. John the Baptist wr |
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bernt notke
ca 1440-1509
Vincenzo Dandini
b Florence, 17 March 1609; bur 22 April 1675
Theodoros Vryzakis
Thebes 19 October 1814 - Munich 6 December 1878) was a major Greek painter of the 19th century. Vryzakis's father died in the Greek War of Independence. He is the first Greek painter who studied in Munich and the main representative of the type of historical painting that was popular in Greece in the 18th century. He is considered the first painter of modern Greece, a recorder of the Greek War of Independence, which he viewed in a romantic and nostalgic way. His paintings' characters are pompous, theatrical and detached figures. His interest in the traditional costumes and the decoration and the absence of any individual facial expression is according to art critics the result of the eye of a "foreign" artist, who looks for the conventional element in another land. The monumental size of his pictures, the ceremonial and theatrical compositions, and the meticulous style of academic idealistic romanticism make his style unique for among Greek Artists. Today, many of his works are exhibited at the National Gallery of Athens and the Benaki Museum in Athens.