{"id":655,"date":"2021-01-30T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotel-tinos.gr\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2021-02-09T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:25:46","slug":"politismos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hotel-tinos.gr\/en\/politismos\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MARBLE SCULPTURE.<\/strong> Tinos contributed to modern marble art and became a major artistic center and place of origin of the major sculptors of the 19th century. Bell towers, marble sculptures, iconostasis, despotic thrones, pulpits, tombstones, fountains, busts and statues that adorn churches, cemeteries and squares throughout Greece, are usually works of Tinian artists. This phenomenon has a lot of probable explanations. White and green marble have always been in abundance on Tinos, while wind makes \u2026its own sculpture on the rocks and inspires the artists! Moreover, sculpture became an age-old tradition and the knowledge and technical expertise was transferred from generation to generation. \nAccording to tradition, when the famous sculptor Phidias was traveling to Delos, his place of exile, such a strong wind blew that his ship was forced to moor in Tinos -thus Tinians were taught the art by the great sculptor himself!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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THE TINIAN SCULPTURES.<\/strong> Giannoulis Halepas, the Fytale brothers, Dimitris Filippotis, Ioannis and Georgios Vitalis, Antonis and Lazaros Sohos\u2026 Some of the most charismatic marble artists were born in Tinos. Marble workers and craftsmen from various villages of Tinos created the works that you see today adorning the settlements. After 1830, Tinian artists pioneered the reconstruction and beautification of the free Greek state\u2019s buildings and monuments. So the island emerged as the largest marble sculpture center in Greece. Tinian artists settled in Athens<\/strong>,<\/strong> where they opened marble quarries.<\/strong> They have worked on almost all the monumental works: In the restoration of the Parthenon, in the Old Palace, the Arsakeio, the University, the Polytechnic, the National Library, the Academy, the Zappeion, the Archaeological Museum ... Today you will find few marble craftsmen to still practice their art in Isternia and Pyrgos.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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GIANNOULIS HALEPAS.<\/strong> He was the most charismatic sculptor of Tinos but also a tragic figure since most of his life he was suffering from mental illness. He was born in 1851 in Pyrgos. His father was a marble worker. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Technical University of Athens and at the Royal Academy of Munich. His creative course is divided into two periods: Before and after the mental illness, which was the reason for being locked up for 14 years in the psychiatric hospital of Corfu. In the first period, influenced by \u039deoclassicism and Romanticism, he created the works with which he remained in history: \"Satyr and Eros\" (1877), \"Medea\", \"Sleeping\" (1878) which you will admire in the A\u2019 Cemetery of Athens. In the second period he created works to express his own inner impulse, which he usually destroyed after their completion. He died on September 15, 1938. \nSome of his works are housed in the Institute of Tinian Culture, in Hora. You may visit his house in Pyrgos village.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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THE EVANGELISTRIA MUSEUMS.<\/h2>\n\t
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Several museums operate in the courtyard of the Evangelistria complex:<\/p>\n