The Curious Case of Yiannouli Halepa; a common – extraordinary story
Yiannoulis Halepas visiting his "Reclining Woman" at Athens First Cemetery circa 1922 Yiannoulis Halepas was a great Greek sculptor of the late 19th century. Born on a small, prominent for marble sculpture, Greek island, he was blessed with a talent and an artistic environment to develop his art all around the island, except from his own family. His father was a marble cutter running a reputable marble business that spanned for generations. Yiannoulis was his first child and he wanted him as a clerk at his business and not an artist. His extended family did not encourage him either through his early years while he was already depicting his abilities, slaying his young enthusiasm with demoting comments and offering nothing but poor evaluations for his early yet hard-worked pieces. Right…
