Spiros Pizanis

He studied in Rome and at the Athens School of Fine Arts, with Charalambos Pachis.

In 1907, he moved to Smyrna, where he taught drawing and painting at the newly founded "Scuola D'Ivrea Centrale"; operated by an order of Italian Catholic nuns.

He was forced to leave during the Turkish War of Independence; taking his family to Rome, where he once again became an art teacher.

Many of his watercolors, on Venetian subjects, are on display at the Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu [el].

Their son, Vittorio [it], was also a well known artist, who spent most of his career in Italy and provided drawings for La Tribuna Illustrata [it], a weekly newspaper supplement.