Paintings by Konstantinos Volonakis

Konstantinos Volonakis at the Nautical Museum in Pireaus

K. Volonakis is known for being Greece's foremost seascape painter, or the father of Greek seascapes. He lived from 1837 until 1907 and in his lifetime studied painting in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Greece; in Germany he studied at the Munich Academy along with some of Greece's other prominent painters such as, Litras and Gizis. During his early career he was awarded an important scholarship that allowed him to travel on a ship for two years in Austria painting the countries various harbors. Along with being a professional painter, Volonakis also became a professor at the Fine Arts university in Athens. His work depicts scenes from ports and harbors around Greece as well as life surrounding the sea.

Photos Tinos Oct. '09

Even this old cinema has the area's Venician
pigeon-stoop design.

while waiting in the marble bus stop in Pirgos


a fish carved into the stone path leading to
Pirgos school of Fine Arts for Sculpture