Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772-1838), French painter and engraver. He learned the art of landscape painting next to the famous painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. He traveled to Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland. He was very observant as a traveler; he recorded in chronicles in the form of epistles, objectively and in detail, his impressions from these travels, which he enriched with his beautiful paintings. He was a member of the French Acadèmie des Beaux-Arts from 1816. In addition to his work Lettres sur la Morée, L’Hellespont et Constantinople, where he publishes the story of Melika, he also wrote: – Mœurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire (1812) – Lettres sur l’Italie (1819) – Fontainebleau (which was published in 1840, after his death).
Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772-1838), French painter and engraver. He learned the art of landscape painting next to the famous painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. He traveled to Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland. He was very observant as a traveler; he recorded in chronicles in the form of epistles, objectively and in detail, his impressions from these travels, which he enriched with his beautiful paintings. He was a member of the French Acadèmie des Beaux-Arts from 1816. In addition to his work Lettres sur la Morée, L’Hellespont et Constantinople, where he publishes the story of Melika, he also wrote: – Mœurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire (1812) – Lettres sur l’Italie (1819) – Fontainebleau (which was published in 1840, after his death).
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French traveler Castellan in an epistle of 1820 writes down the charming story of Melica, which was told to the French travelers by a wandering Greek rhapsodist: piracy, love, war, envy, betrayal, triumph of true love, but also a realistic depiction of pre-revolutionary Greece.
