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Bonanos, Georgios
(b Kephallinia, 1863; d Athens, 1939–40). Greek sculptor. He studied sculpture in Athens during the late 1870s at the School of Fine Arts and in the workshop of Demetrios Philippotis and then at the Reggio Istituto in Rome. Influenced by the school of Canova, he based his work on Classical Greek principles; throughout his career he copied and restored Classical statues in marble, a medium which he used almost exclusively for his own work. In his sculpture he blended a realist approach with academic classicist forms. His very active Athenian workshop produced funerary monuments and tombstones (e.g. Sleeping Woman, 1911; Athens, First Cemetery, S. Stamboltzi tomb), busts, monuments and statues of eminent Greeks (e.g. Admiral Miaoulis, 1885–8, erected 1889, Syros Mus.; and Ioannis Capodistrias, 1930–33, U. Athens).
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