Botis Thalassinos was born in 1927 in Heraklion, Crete. At the age of 10 he was awarded by the Ministry of Education for his portrait of Kolokotronis, which he had painted at school. He took lessons in icon painting in Heraklion and in 1956 he left for Brazil, where he studied painting at the Associação…

Stavros Velivasakis was born in 1929 in Heraklion, Crete. He was a self-taught painter and a ceramist and was particularly interested in mosaic. He presented his works in exhibitions in Crete and Athens. He died in Heraklion in 2010.