Petros Roumpos (; 1873–1942) was a

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sculptor, painter and artist of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography

Roumpos was born in Georgitsi, near

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in 1873. He studied painting and sculpting at the

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with professors such as Nikephoros Lytras and Broutos. Roumpos drew mostly portraits and busts, such the ones of architect Aristotelis Zahos, poet and playwright Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos,

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and others. A marble bust that he made of the poet

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is placed at the square of the same name in Athens. The artist used Mavilis' actual traits, due to the fact that Mavilis himself, at the age of 53, posed for Petros Roumpos. The bust was placed at its current location by

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in 1938. The same bust exists in three additional copies: in

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and at the Offices of Greek Writers. Petros Roumpos' work includes funerary monuments, such as that of the family of Georgios Athenogenous (1910), with a seated winged figure, at the

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, as well as the Monument dedicated to the high priests in

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, with engraved details of the acts of the Arcadians during the

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. He also created heroons in Magoula, Sparti and in

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. Petros Roumpos died in Athens in February 1942.

Gallery

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girl" by Petros Roumpos File:Γυρισμος.png, "The return" by Petros Roumpos File:Γαμο.png, "The wedding" by Petros Roumpos File:Δρομος.png, "The way" by Petros Roumpos File:Lorentzos Mavilis, Greek poet - Athens, 2008.JPG, Bust of the poet

at Mavilis square in

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Sources

* Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Πάπυρος-Λαρούς-Μπριτάνικα, λήμμα "Ρούμπος, Πέτρος", τόμ. 52, σελ. 297, Εκδόσεις Πάπυρος, Αθήνα, 1996. * Ζέττα Αντωνοπούλου: "Τα γλυπτά της Αθήνας: Υπαίθρια γλυπτική 1834 – 2004", σελ. 93, 94, 98 & 206, α΄ έκδοση, Εκδόσεις "Ποταμός", Αθήνα, 2003. * Στέλιος Λυδάκης: "Οι Έλληνες Γλύπτες – Η νεοελληνική γλυπτική: ιστορία – τυπολογία – λεξικό γλυπτών", τόμ. 5ος, σελ. 444, Εκδοτικός οίκος "ΜΕΛΙΣΣΑ", Αθήνα, 1981.

References

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