Focus on Saint Spyridon, John the Baptist, Saint Peter, and Saint George (Koutouzis) and explore the abstract.
Saint Spyridon, John the Baptist, Saint Peter and Saint George is an oil painting created by Greek painter Nikolaos Koutouzis.  He was a prominent member of the Heptanese School of painting.  He was from the island of Zakynthos.  He studied with Nikolaos Doxaras and Giovanni Tiepolo.  He was an active painter for over fifty years.  One hundred and thirty-six paintings are attributed to the artist.  He was active from 1750 to 1813.In the Greek world.  Greek-style paintings were more popular than Italian-style paintings El Greco was the only major Greek painter to succeed at painting a genre outside of the traditional Greek style.  Two of the most prominent painters who successfully changed the predictive norm were Nikolaos Koutouzis and Nikolaos Kantounis.  Each painter has a catalogue of over one hundred works.  Both painters successfully acquired patrons for portraits.
A saint is a person recognized as exhibiting a significant degree of divinity and closeness to God.  Some churches officially canonize people worthy of public veneration.  Greek and Italian painters have featured saints in their works since the inception of the new religion.  The most featured saint was John the Baptist .  Some painters painted more than one saint typically with Jesus or the Virgin Mary and or both.  Saint Peter was frequently featured often holding the keys of heaven.  Italian painter Guido Reni painted a notable version of four saints in the same position as Koutouzi's work.  Both works feature similar landscapes but different saints.  Another notable work that strongly resembles Koutouzi's painting was supposedly completed in the early 1700s.  The artist is unknown.  The unknown work may have been completed by Koutouzi.  Koutouzi's painting is located at the National Gallery of Corfu on the Ionian Islands in Corfu, Greece.
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