Socrate Sidiropoulos (born 1947 in

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), is a Greek

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and

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Biography

His mother, a painter of orthodox

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, taught him the art of

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

frescos Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becom ...

, and

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. He was disciple of the sculptor

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. He continued to study the sculpture by the sculptor Costas Valsamis. He learned Western painting from the painters Zoe Valsamis and Philopoemen Constantinidi. He completed his studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière in

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. He is influenced by the painters

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, Zurbarán, and

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. He has painted religious scenes with occidental art. He has painted icons for Gregorian and Julian orthodox churches. He has painted many scenes of

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and

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. He has painted portraits of the matador

Manolete Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez (4 July 1917 – 29 August 1947), known as Manolete, was a Spanish bullfighter. Career Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez was the son of a bullfighter (who also went by the name Manolete) and his wife An ...

Nimeño II Christian Montcouquiol ("Nimeño II") (10March 195425November 1991) was a French torero, matador. Career Christian Montcouquiol was born in France. He was the brother of Alain Montcouquiol, a bullfighter known as "Nimeño I". Christian fought ...

Paquirri Francisco Rivera Pérez (; 5 March 1948 – 26 September 1984), better known as Paquirri (), was a Spanish bullfighter. He died after being gored by a Spanish Fighting Bull, bull named Avispado at the Pozoblanco bullring. During his career, he ...

, and others.

Selected works

*''The Artist and his Room'' (painting), Museum of Elsene, Bruxelles, Belgium *''Oriental Portrait'' (painting), Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborgs, Sweden *''Manolete'' (painting), Museo de Arte de El Salvador *''Suleiman the Magnificent'' (painting), The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts of Moscow, Russia *''La Vuelta (Nimeno II)'' (painting), Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Les Villas des Pins, Monaco

Bibliography

*Martine Brimault, ''Peintres de Portraits à Paris de 1764 à 2014'', Erato 2014, , page 131, 132, 133, 134, BNF Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
BNF Catalogue Général
*Martine Brimault, ''Sotiris René Sidiropoulos'', Peintre Sculpteur, monographie de l'artiste, Erato 2014, , page 76, 77, 78, 79, BNF Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
BNF Catalogue Général

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