Topic: Theodoros Vryzakis

Azjah

Date: 2008-05-24 15:38 EST
Theodoros Vryzakis (circa 1814-1878) was a major Greek painter of the 19th century.

Vryzakis was the son of a victim of 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 19th century

Germanos blessing the flag at Agia Lavra. Oil painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865 Benaki Museum, Athens.

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Theodore Vryzakis, The sortie of Messologhi National Gallery of Athens
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Lord Byron at the Siege of Messolonghi 1825, National Gallery of Athens.
The campus of Georgios Karaiskakis (1855) National Gallery of Athens.

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