Mavronas Evangelos
Icon painter
certified as an icon painter by the Greek Ministry of Culture
Icon painter
certified as an icon painter by the Greek Ministry of Culture
As a result of years of research, quest, and experience, the paintings of Mavronas encompass his deep knowledge of tradition and techniques and are wholly complete works of art.
Evangelos Mavronas was born in Corfu, an island with great artistic tradition in several forms of art, but especially in post-Byzantine art. Mavronas himself is a follower of that tradition. His encounter with the art of icon painting is as experiential as it is educational. He has been certified as an icon painter by the Greek Ministry of Culture. He began his studies at a very early age with masters in the art and with the great icon painters of Mount Athos. Today, he continues this tradition of teaching with the few selected pupils that study in his workshop. As a result of years of research, quest, and experience, the paintings of Mavronas encompass his deep knowledge of tradition and techniques and are wholly complete works of art.
Portfolio
Evangelos Mavronas belongs to those painters that humbly and tenaciously reproduce post-byzantine creations and specifically Cretan painters.
His choices are not guided by a dehydrated adherence in past models but by the need of creative reformation of, work valorised in the conscience of church, famous at their time artists. Present requirements often lie in more fertile past resorts than those that barren historism offers.
Mavronas collaborates for years with the Benaki Museum, supplying its shop with copies of known pictures from the museums collections.
Solid studies, inspiration and, above all, his artistic sensitivity constitute pledges for the quality of his work.
Aggelos Delivorias
Benaki Museum Manage
This is not the first time that the Ministry of Culture collaborates with the artist Evangelos Mavronas. For many years he receives work in which the sensitivity of his paintbrush, competes the essential character that work as the Byzantines and the post
Byzantine pictures have.
Mavronas does not make plain copies; he tries to infuse in the copy the charm and the blow of the prototype. I believe he manages eminently.
Dimitrios Konstadios
Byzantine and Christian Museum Manage