Painting in Greece Paleolithic Era 30 000 12

Painting in Greece

Paleolithic Era (30. 000 -12. 000 b. C. ) n They were found in caves where people lived.

Paleolithic Era (30. 000 -12. 000 b. C. )

Neolithic Period (around 10. 000 B. C. ) § People used to decorate vases with geometrical shapes.

Ancient Greek Painting Dolphins at the Minoan Palace at Knossos (Crete 1500 B. C) A wall painting of plants from Thera (1600 B. C) Mycenaean fresco of a woman

Polignotos “Kimona’s Period”

Polignotos “Odysseus’ Descent”

Minoan Art

Mycenaean Art

Cycladic Art

Apollodorus (180 - around 110 B. C)

Apelles His paintings depict the battles of Alexander the Great.

Classical Period Red – figure Style Black – figure Style

The Byzantine Period is seperated into three periods: § The Early Christian Art or Early Byzantine Period (4 th– 7 th century). § The Iconoclasm or Middle Byzantine Art (8 th– 12 th century). § The Period of Palaiologos or the Late Byzantine Art.

The Byzantine Period “The Birth” - Michael Damaskinos

Renaissance (16 “Saint Theodora” Emanuel Tzanes. th century)

El Greco ““Saint Dominic in Pray” “The Entombment of Christ” “The Adoration of the Magi”

Nikiforos Litras (1832 -1904) “The hanging of Patriarch Gregory the Fifth” “The Burning of the Tourkish flagship from Kanari” “Antigone in front of dead Polinikis”

Nikolaos Gizis (1842 -1901) “The Secret School” “Grandfather and Grandchild” “Child’s Engagement” “Carnival in Athens” Other artists are Dennis Kalibokas (1806 -1877) and George Miniatis (1820 -1895)

Another Group of Artists 1844 and 1872 Polixronis Lebesis (18491913) “The Kid with the Rabbits” Simeon Savidis (1859 -1927) “A Turkish Woman during Coffee Time”

Modern Art Konstantinos Parthenis (1878 -1967) “Corfu” Konstantinos Maleas (1879 -1928) “Santorini”

Egonopoulos (1907 -1985) “The Byzantine” “Dioscuri” Other artists are: Kontoglou, Basiliou, Tsarouxis, Moralis and Diamantopoulos

Zakynthian Art Zakynthian Hagiographies

Panagiotis Doxaras (1662 -1729) “Ourania” The “Οurania” is in St. Spiridonas church in Kerkyra. Some of his paintings

Nicolaos Doxaras (1700 -1775) Nicolaos Doxara’s (son of Panagiotis Doxaras) works of art:

Nicolaos Koutouzis (1741 -1813) Some of Nicolaos Koutouzi’s paintings (mainly portraits):

Nikolaos Kadounis (1767 -1834) Some of his works of art (portraits):

Painting In Greece The End.