Yervant Voskan

Yervant Voskan was born in 1855 in Samatya, Istanbul into an Armenian family as the son of writer Hagop Voskan (1825 – 1907). His grandfather was Voskan Gotogyan of Erzurum, a foundryman at the Imperial Mint. After receiving his primary education from his father, he attended the Catholic Makruhyan Armenian School in Beşiktaş and the Pera Hayr Ananya school. In 1866, with the support of his family, he went to Venice to study at the Moorat-Raphael College. There he was a student of Luigi Qura. Later he continued his studies in Rome at the Rome Imperial Art School as a student of Enrico Bektti and Cirolana Mazzini. In 1878 he was sent to Paris on a state scholarship to be educated in sculpture. == Career ==

Upon his return to the Ottoman Empire in 1881 he aided in the founding of the department of sculpture at the Sanâyi-i Nefîse Mekteb-i Âlisi in 1883. It was one if the schools first departments and Voskan was its first teacher. He began teaching sculpture in the academy on March 1, 1883. Voskan is credited with educating the first generation of sculptors of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief restorer of the Sarcophagus. == References ==