Dionysios Vegias
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Dionysios Vegias | |
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Διονύσιος Βέγιας | |
| Born | 1810 Cephalonia, Greece |
| Died | 1884 (aged 73–74) Corfu, Greece |
| Occupation | Painter |
Dionysios Vegias (Greek: Διονύσιος Βέγιας, 1810–84) was a Greek painter of the later Heptanese School of painting.
Dionysios Vegias was born in 1810 in Cephalonia.[1] He was a pupil of the sculptor Pavlos Prosalentis (1784–1837), then received a scholarship from the Ionian Islands to study painting at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He proved an excellent pupil. He stayed in Italy for some time making copies of Renaissance genre paintings, which were popular with buyers at the time. In 1839 he returned to Corfu, where he taught drawing at the art school founded by Prosalentis. He then taught at the Lyceum of Corfu.[2] He died in 1884 in Corfu.[1]
