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Demetrios Stavrakis (Δημήτριος Σταυράκης, 1735/40 – 1801), also known as the so-called Romanos (ο λεγόμενος Ρωμανός) was a Greek painter of the Heptanese School.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 12 relations: Greece, Hagiography, Iconography, Ionian school (painting), Jonah, Kuruş, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Neoclassicism, Rococo, Stylianos Stavrakis, The Prophet Jonah (Stavrakis), Zakynthos.

  2. 18th-century Greek painters
  3. Painters of the Heptanese school
  4. People from Zakynthos

Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Ionian school (painting)

The Heptanese school of painting (Seven Islands; also known as the Ionian Islands school or Ionian school) succeeded the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669.

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Jonah

Jonah or Jonas is a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE.

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Kuruş

Kuruş, also gurush, ersh, gersh, grush, grosha, and grosi, are all names for currency denominations in and around the territories formerly part of the Ottoman Empire.

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National Hellenic Research Foundation

The National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF; Greek: Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Ε.Ι.Ε.)) is a non-profit, private-law legal entity established in 1958 with the aim of conducting interdisciplinary research in the fields of science and the humanities.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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Stylianos Stavrakis

Stylianos Stavrakis (Στυλιανός Σταυράκης, 1709/1714 – 1786), was a Greek painter during the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment era in art. Demetrios Stavrakis and Stylianos Stavrakis are 18th-century Greek painters, painters of the Heptanese school and People from Zakynthos.

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The Prophet Jonah (Stavrakis)

The Prophet Jonah was a tempera painting created by Demetrios Stavrakis.

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Zakynthos

Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Zákynthos; Zacinto) or Zante (Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

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See also

18th-century Greek painters

Painters of the Heptanese school

People from Zakynthos

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Stavrakis