10 Facts About Ioanni Korai

Ioanni Korai was a Greek painter that shared the same name as his famous uncle Ioannis Korais.

Ioanni Korai was a prominent painter on the Ionian Islands.

Ioanni Korai was active during the Modern Greek Enlightenment and Greek romanticism in art.

Ioanni Korai's most notable painting is a portrait of Kyriakos Chorafas painted in 1826.

Ioanni Korai was one of the descendants of the famous painter Michael Korais.

Ioanni Korai's uncle was Ioannis Korais; he inherited his tools for painting.

Ioanni Korai is first mentioned in the archives of the church of Agios Charalambos in Zakynthos at Potami.

Ioanni Korai painted the iconostasis of the churches of Hodegetria and Agios Nikolaos of Geronton, as well as the iconostasis of Agios Nikolaos in 1815.

Ioanni Korai remained on the island of Zakynthos when the Greek war of independence broke out.

Ioanni Korai died in 1841 in the Martinegos poorhouse on the island of Zakynthos.