page_title: Panagiotis Doxaras
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Panagiotis Doxaras / Work
caption_attribution_description: Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, Αθήνα. The Liturgy of St Spyridon Painted by the Lacedaimonian Panagiotis Doxaras. It is a largely unknown till recently sketch of the ceiling decoration of the church of Hagios Spyridon in Kerkyra (Corfu). The significant 18th c. painter used for the needs of this work the shape that had also been used by Paolo Veronese for the work “Apotheosis of Venice"" in palazzo Ducale, Venice. Type: PORTABLE ICON Origin: Ionian Islands Creator: Panagiotis Doxaras Measurement: 72 x 57,5 cm Exhibit Number: ΒΧΜ 02069
context_page_description: Panagiotis Doxaras was a Greek painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art.
context_section_description: Doxaras' work signals the departure of Greek painting from the Byzantine iconography towards the Western European Renaissance art. He admired passionately the great Italian painters and in particular Leonardo da Vinci, whose book Art of painting (Trattato della pittura) he translated into Greek.
  In 1726 he wrote the famous, albeit controversial and much debated theoretical text On painting (Περί ζωγραφίας) in which he addressed the need for Greek art to depart from Byzantine art towards Western European art. The article was originally published after Doxaras' death in 1871. His article even today is the subject of much discussion in Greece.
  Despite Doxaras' religious subjects, he was the first painter that tried to depict realistically the faces of his figures and his paintings' religious scenes. Doxaras also introduced into Greek iconography the technique of oil painting, which replaced the old method of mixing pigments with egg yolk. Having as a quide the works of Paolo Veronese, he painted the roof of Agios Spyridonas in Corfu, where he died. The images faded and later in the middle of the 19th century were replaced with newer ones painted by Nikolaos Aspiotis.
  Doxaras was also the first painter that worked on portraiture. His most famous portrait was that of Count Graf von der Schulenburg, leader of the Venetian army and defendant of Corfu, which he signed as "Panagiotis Doxaras, Lacedaemonian Horseman, 1725, May 15th" (Hellenomnemon, p. 19) . Nikolaos Doxaras (1700/1706-1775), son of Panagiotis Doxaras continued the artistic legacy of his father.
caption: The liturgy of St Spyridon, Byzantine museum, Athens.
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