The Angelos Giallina Mansion is a monumental building facing Spianada Square in the historic Venetian part of Corfu Town.
The house was built around 1650 and originally belonged to the noble Quartano family. In 1885, Angelos Giallina (1857-1939), a descendant of a noble family that had moved to Corfu from Crete, bought the building. Giallina was a famous painter who is best known for his watercolor paintings, a genre in which he excelled and was praised at international exhibitions. The painter used the house as his family mansion and studio.
In 1993, his son Stamos Giallina established the Angelos Giallina Gallery in the building with a permanent collection of the painter’s works. However, after the death of Stamos and his wife Elizabeth, the building has fallen into disrepair and is in need of an extensive renovation.
Over time, the building has undergone many conversions and renovations, and its current shape and appearance were formed during the English rule of Corfu, following the plans of the architect Ioannis Chronis around 1840. The building has a gallery-style porch with six pillars and a balcony on the first floor. Its facade is decorated with morphological elements, a typical phenomenon in Corfiote architecture.
