Leonidas Drosis

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Leonidas Drosis
Ioannis Kapodistrias' statue in Corfu (city)
Close up view of the Athena column, Academy of Athens (modern)

Leonidas Drosis (Greek: Λεωνίδας Δρόσης; (1834/1836/1843 - 1882)) was a Greek neoclassical sculptor of the 19th century.

Born in

Greek surname Drosis due to his love for Greece and because he identified solely as Greek.[2][3] He later studied in Athens and Munich on a scholarship provided by Simon Sinas
.

Drosis's major work is the extensive neo-classical architectural ornament at the

Vienna Exhibition of 1873.[4] Drosis is also responsible for the figures of Athena and Apollo with lyre on the Academy's flanking pillars, and the seated marble figures of Plato and Socrates, which were executed "by the Italian sculptor Piccarelli".[5] (The eight smaller pediments in the Academy complex are the terra-cotta work of Austrian sculptor Franz Melnitzky.)[6]

Drosis died in Naples in 1882.[1]

Gallery

  • Tomb of Eugénie Boime-Simon
    Tomb of Eugénie Boime-Simon
  • Irini Mavrokordatou
    Irini Mavrokordatou
  • Owl
    Owl
  • Ioannis Varvakis
    Ioannis Varvakis
  • Penelope
    Penelope
  • Ipsilanti Monument
    Ipsilanti Monument
  • Socrates Academy of Athens
    Socrates Academy of Athens
  • Socrates Academy of Athens
    Socrates Academy of Athens
  • Plato Academy of Athens
    Plato Academy of Athens
  • Sketch of Athena
    Sketch of Athena
  • Athena w/ Ionic Column
    Athena w/ Ionic Column
  • Athena Side View w/ Sphere
    Athena Side View w/ Sphere
  • Athena Front View
    Athena Front View
  • Sketch of Apollo
    Sketch of Apollo
  • Apollo Full View Academy of Athens
    Apollo Full View Academy of Athens
  • Apollo Half View Academy of Athens
    Apollo Half View Academy of Athens
  • Apollo Close Up w/ Ionic Column
    Apollo Close Up w/ Ionic Column
  • Apollo Close Up of Statue
    Apollo Close Up of Statue

References

  1. ^ . Δρόσης, Λεωνίδας: Γλύπτης I.1. Τρίπολη ή Ναύπλιο, 1834 - Νάπολη Ιταλίας , 1882. Η μητέρα του ήταν Ελληνίδα και ο πατέρας του Γερμανός, ο στρατιωτικός μουσικός von Dorsch, που ήταν και κατασκευαστής μουσικών οργάνων.[His mother was Greek and his father German, the military musician von Dorsch, who was also a maker of musical instruments]
  2. ^ a b George D. Dimacopoulos (1962). Historia tēs Neoellēnikēs technēs: zōgraphikēs, glyptikēs, charaktikēs, architektonikēs kai diakosmētikēs : 1821-1941, Volume 1. To Hellēniko Vivlio. p. 251. Ο Λεωνίδας Δρόσης γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1843. Ο πατέρας του ήταν Βαυαρός και λέγονταν Φον Ντρός (Von Dorsch) κ' η μητέρα του Ελληνίδα από την οικογένεια Μέξη. Μα ο Λεωνίδας άφισε το Γερμανικό του όνομα , πήρε το Ελληνικό Δρόσης και εξελληνίστηκε ολότελα.[Leonidas Drosis was born in Athens in 1843. His father was Bavarian and his name was Von Dorsch and his mother was Greek from the Mexi family. But Leonidas left his German name, took the Greek name of Drosis and became completely Hellenized]
  3. ^ "Λεωνίδας Δρόσης". Nea hestia (in Greek). I. D. Kollaros & Sa. 1955. p. 1431. Ο γλύπτης Λεωνίδας, ποὺ ἀγαποῦσε θερμὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ ἤθελε νἆναι μονάχα Ελληνας, ἄφησε τὸ γερμανικὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατέρα του, ἐπῆρε τὸ ἑλληνικὸ Δρόσης...
  4. ^ "Academy of Athens". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Academy of Athens". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  6. ^ Neoclassical Architecture in Greece, by Mānos G. Bīris, Márō Kardamítsī-Adámī, page 142

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