12 Facts About Nikolaos Philanthropinos

Nikolaos Philanthropinos, known as Nicolaos Philanthropenos and Nicolaus Filantropino or Philastropino, was a Byzantine Greek painter.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was a very famous painter during the onset of the Italian Renaissance, the end of the Palaeologan Renaissance and the beginning of the Greek Renaissance.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos brought the art of Constantinople to Venice and Crete.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos completed some mosaics for St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was related to the Patriarch of Constantinople Joseph II.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was involved in the incident indirectly, the Patriarch of Constantinople tried to intervene in the matter involving Kalophrenas.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was accused of trying to increase the influence of the Patriarch of Constantinople in Venetian held Crete.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was convicted of breaking the law and was sentenced to eight months in prison.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was the chief mosaicist in the Basilica after the fire of 1419.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos was not the only famous Greek painter affiliated with the extraordinary historic basilica.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos is not the only Greek painter to have worked in Venice.

Nikolaos Philanthropinos worked on the mosaics of Saint Mark's Basilica.