Ioannis Korais
Greek painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ioannis Korais (Greek: Ιωάννης Κοραής, 1732 – December 10, 1799) was a Greek painter. He was a prominent member of the Heptanese School. His contemporaries were Nikolaos Doxaras and Nikolaos Koutouzis. His family was from the island of Chios. He was the grandson of the painter Michael Korais from Chios. He helped revolutionize Greek painting. He was a follower of Panagiotis Doxaras and the new techniques he was employing.
His student was the painter Nikolaos Kantounis. Korais was part of the Greek Rococo and Neoclassical movements in Greek art. His nephew of the same name, Ioannis Korais, was also a painter. His best known surviving work is the Litany of the Relic of Saint Charalambos, which is in the Zakynthos Museum.[1][2][3][4][5]