Nikiforos Lytras - Revision history

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 [[Image:Lytras lk06m018.jpg|thumb|220px|Awaiting - [[National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum]]]]
-'''Nikiforos Lytras''' (Born: Tinos 1832- Died: Athens 1904). Greek painter. Leading exponent of 19th Century Greek Art.
+'''Nikiforos Lytras''' (Born: Tinos 1832 - Died: Athens 1904). Greek painter. Leading exponent of 19th Century Greek Art.
 Lytras was born in Pyrgos, [[Tinos]] in [[1832]]. He studied in the Athens School of Art from [[1850]] until [[1860]] and received a state scholarship for further studies at the Munich Academy.

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 [[Image:Kanaris-lk01a002.jpg|thumb|220px|The blowing up of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris, 143x109 cm. [[Averoff Gallery]]]]
 [[Image:Lytras lk06m018.jpg|thumb|220px|Awaiting - [[National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum]]]]
-'''Nikiforos Lytras''' was a painter, one of the greatest painters to come out of [[Greece]].
 Lytras was born in Pyrgos, [[Tinos]] in [[1832]]. He studied in the Athens School of Art from [[1850]] until [[1860]] and received a state scholarship for further studies at the Munich Academy.
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 In [[1873]], Lytras along with his friend [[Nikolaos Gyzis]] toured [[Asia Minor]]. In [[1874]] the two painters moved to Munich. Gyzis stayed, Lytras returned to Greece within a year.
-In [[1879]], Lytras married Irene Kyriakidou. The couple had six children.
+In [[1879]], Lytras married Irene Kyriakidou. The couple had six children, including the actor [[Lysandros Lytras]] (1885-1921) and the successful painters [[Nikolaos Lytras]] (1883-1927) and [[Perikles Lytras]] (1888-1940).
 Nikiforos Lytras retained his post at the Athens School of Fine Arts until 1904 - the year of his death. He died on [[June 14]] of that year, after a brief illness reportedly caused by inhalation of toxic fumes from the chemicals in his paints. He was succeeded at his post by one of his students: [[Georgios Iakovidis]].

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 *Portrait of Kaftantzoglou
 *Boy making a Cigarette
 [[Category:1832 births|Lytras, Nikiforos]]
 [[Category:1904 deaths|Lytras, Nikiforos]]
 [[Category:Painters|Lytras, Nikiforos]]

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 ==Works==
 *Antigone before Polynices' Corpse.
-*Burning of the Turkish Flagship by [[Konstantinos Kanaris|Kanaris]]
+*Blowing up of the Turkish Flagship by [[Konstantinos Kanaris|Kanaris]]
 *Carols
 *The Execution of [[Patriarch Gregory V]]