Anthivola apo tous Chioniades

This catalog includes drawings on paper (studies and anthivola) by painters of the Postbyzantine and Modern Greek period (18th-20th centuries) from the Giannoulis family collection as well as archival material, from the village Chioniades in Epirus and more specifically from the Papakostades or Marinades family workshop. The anthivola, print or pricked sketches, constituted a kind of iconographic guide for the painters who undertook the decoration of churches with mural paintings or portable works, as well as that of secular buildings with landscapes, portraits and painted chests. The Chionadite painters apprenticed in monasteries of Mount Athos; they worked in churches and houses in more than a hundred villages of Epirus, Western Macedonia and Thessaly. Their sketches, indicative of their cosmopolitan character, were influenced by the monuments of the Byzantine past but also by contemporary European currents (baroque and rococo) and by the New Russian school of religious painting.