Giannoulis Halepas was one of the best marble sculptors
He was born in Tinos on 14/8/1851. when he was young, he liked very much the sculpture.
After studying sculpture, he opened in Athens his own sculpture workshop.
He made many well-known work of arts. Many of his works have been destroyed by him when he got a nervous breakdown
The nervous breakdown had been caused by an erotic disappointment, uninterrupted work.
Ηis family was closed him to a psychiatric hospital in Corfu where he had too difficult times .
When his father died, his mother took him from the psychiatric hospital and they returned to Tinos and his mother never let him to work with sculpture
When his mother died, he began to work again with sculpture.. he made many sculptures until he died on 15/9/1938 ...
His home in Tinos has become one of the most important museums of Greek art
one of his best-known works is Halepa's "Sleep"
sources
http://www.isternia.net/politismos/artists/giannoulis-chalepas.html