Nikolaos Doxaras

Nikolaos Doxaras
Born1706
Kalamata
Died1775
Zakynthos
NationalityGreek
Notable workFresco's Panagia Faneromeni
MovementGreek Rocco
Heptanese School
Neoclassicism
SpouseChrisi Pantazi Psoma
Patron(s)Johann Schulenburg

Nikolaos Doxaras (Greek: Νικόλαος Δοξαράς; 1706/10 – 2 March 1775). He was a Greek painter and teacher. His father was famous painter Panagiotis Doxaras. Panagiotis Doxaras was the father of the Greek Rococo and the Modern Greek Enlightenment in art. They are both prominent members of the Heptanese School. They refined Greek art bringing the Maniera Greca into the Maniera Italiana. Artists he influenced include: Nikolaos Kantounis, Nikolaos Koutouzis and Gerasimos Pitsamanos. His influence can be seen in some of Nikolaos Kantounis's paintings notably The Assumption. Nikolaos taught famous painter Nikolaos Koutouzis. Both Nikolaos Koutouzis and Doxaras artistic style refined the art of the Ionian Islands. Venetian painting influenced countless Greek artists who were living in the empire. From Michael Damaskinos to Theodore Poulakis. Twenty years after Nikolaos's death the style came to an end due to the Fall of the Republic of Venice. A new artistic style developed after the Greek Rococo which coincided with Neoclassicism in the rest of Europe called the middle Modern Greek Enlightenment in art also known as Neo-Hellenikos Diafotismos.[1][2][3][4]

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  2. ^ Post-Byzantium: the Greek Renaissance : 15th-18th century treasures from the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens by George Kakavas etal. 2002 ISBN 960-214-053-4 page 41
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  4. ^ Drakopoulou, Eugenia (2010). Greek painters after the fall (1450-1830) Volume C. Center for Modern Greek Studies E.I.E. pp. 270–272.