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by Panagiotis Mastrantonis
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Martingana (or Martigo) was a medium-sized commercial sailing ship built on most of the main Greek shipbuilding islands during the second half of the... more
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Martingana (or Martigo) was a medium-sized commercial sailing ship built on most of the main Greek shipbuilding islands during the second half of the 18th century, with a widespread use throughout the Mediterranean, from the East Aegean to the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas (with some rigging modifications).
It was also used as a military vessel during the Greek Revolution of 1821. The first cruiser ship of the island of Samos was the Martigo of captain Manolis Hadzigeorgiou, named “Panagia” (“Virgin Mary”) and converted from a commercial ship to a cruiser, following the intervention of Dimitris Themelis, the General Commissioner of the “Filiki Eteria”*.
*“Society of Friends”, was a secret 19th century organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state.
Artwork #15 (blueprint version) from the collection of miniatures "The evolution of the Greek sailing vessels from the 16th to the 19th cent...
His love and admiration for the craftsmanship and form of the sailing-ships of the past, coupled with the adventurous & somewhat magical atmosphere of the "age of sail" is what fuels the intriguing work of Panagiotis Mastrantonis. Born in 1940 in Piraeus, Greece and with family roots from the islands of Hydra and Ios, the sea and maritime scenery seems to have had a lasting underlying influence on his creative psyche. After studying freehand drawing at the Art School of George and Eleni Vakalo and architectural drawing at the Athens Technological Institute, he worked as a professional architectural modeler until 1995. Since then he engaged exclusively in drawing his sailing ship portraits, using a unique mixed technique of freehand...
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