18 Facts About Stamatis Voulgaris

Stamatis Voulgaris or Stamati Bulgari, was a painter, an architect and the first urban planner of modern Greece.

Stamatis Voulgaris was born in Lefkimmi in the island of Corfu, Venetian Ionian Islands in 1774, and died in 1842.

Stamatis Voulgaris was an officer in the French army and had been granted French nationality.

Stamatis Voulgaris was born in Lefkimmi, on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Islands, in 1774.

Stamatis Voulgaris's parents were Alexandros Voulgaris of Aloysios and Loukia Pandis.

Stamatis Voulgaris immediately grabbed the fuse and then neutralized it, thus saving the theater and a whole French military detachment which passed nearby with heavy weapons and ammunition.

Stamatis Voulgaris became an engineer geographer and an extraordinary designer in the service of the ministry's Depot de la Guerre.

Stamatis Voulgaris participated in several military missions, notably between 1810 and 1814, as an employee at the General Staff of the governor of the Ionian Islands, General Francois-Xavier Donzelot.

Stamatis Voulgaris followed several painting courses in parallel with his studies, in particular in the atelier of the renown painter Jacques-Louis David.

Stamatis Voulgaris then became part, with his fellow student, the famous painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, of the first members of a whole new generation of young neo-classical painters from the 1820s, in David's suite, later called the School of Barbizon.

Stamatis Voulgaris painted in 1821, in his Souvenirs, a literary painting of this forest of Fontainebleau which used to inspire him with a "meditative and religious feeling".

Stamatis Voulgaris returned to France in August 1826 and devoted a chapter of his Souvenirs to this journey.

Yet, the most important urban planning mission of Stamatis Voulgaris was the planning of the city of Patras in 1829, on Kapodistrias' order.

Stamatis Voulgaris arrived there on 5 December 1828 accompanied by Captain Auguste-Theodore Garnot.

Stamatis Voulgaris specifically proposed to erect the modern city on the seaside, which was then a freer and more extensive area.

Stamatis Voulgaris planned to build nine symmetrical public squares, quays, vast and long boulevards or avenues bordered by trees and perfectly ventilated, fountains, arcades, green areas round the Patras Castle and three main doors which would open on the roads to Gastouni, Kalavryta and Corinth.

Stamatis Voulgaris wanted to cover out of his own pocket the financial costs for tree planting in Patras.

Captain Stamatis Voulgaris was responsible in particular for drawing the plan of the siege of Lepanto and the direction of its works.