Nationalgalerie (Athen)

Athen

Die Nationalgalerie in Athen wurde in ihrer heutigen Form 1976 gegründet. Vorgänger war die unter Georgios Jakobides ausgebaute Sammlung der Städtischen Pinakothek aus dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Heute beherbergt die Sammlung etwa 9500 Kunstwerke.

Byzantinisches und Christliches Museum

Athen

Das Byzantinische und Christliche Museum , kurz Byzantinisches Museum, ist ein Museum in Athen, spezialisiert auf sakrale christliche Kunst.

Stavronikita

Karyes

Moni Stavronikita ist ein orthodoxes Kloster an der Nordostküste der Halbinsel Athos in Griechenland, das in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft zu den Klöstern Iviron und Pantokratoros liegt. In der Rangfolge der 20 großen Athosklöster nimmt es den 15. Platz ein.

Benaki-Museum

Athen

Das Benaki-Museum in der griechischen Hauptstadt Athen ist das größte private Museum Griechenlands. Es ist das einzige Museum in Griechenland, das die Besucher durch alle Epochen der griechischen Kultur und Geschichte führt. Es beherbergt Werke der griechischen Kunst aus vorgeschichtlicher Zeit bis zur Gegenwart sowie eine umfangreiche Sammlung asiatischer Kunst. Ferner finden regelmäßige Ausstellungen statt.

Historical Museum of Crete

Iraklio

The Historical Museum of Crete was founded by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies in 1953 and is housed in a neoclassical building of significant architectural merit in the city of Heraklion on Crete, an island of Greece. The museum was expanded following the addition of a new wing and floor.The museum's permanent collections highlight the art and history of Crete from the 4th century AD up to and including the Second World War. The collections are ordered chronologically and by subject matter, and are combined with visual material and multimedia. They include ceramics, sculptures, coins, jewellery, wall paintings, portable icons, ritual objects, manuscripts, heirlooms, weavings, the reconstructed interior of a Cretan rural home and much more. The museum's finest exhibits are two paintings by Doménikos Theotokópoulos , born in Crete: The Baptism of Christ and View of Mount Sinai , the only works by the artist now on Crete. Another outstanding exhibit is a 4×4 metre mock-up of mid-17th century Chandax , at the time when the city reached its peak under Venetian rule. Of particular interest is the Nikos Kazantzakis Collection, featuring the study and library from the author's home in Antibes, France, personal effects, manuscripts of his works, first editions of books in various languages, etc. The temporary exhibition rooms at the Historical Museum of Crete host exhibitions on a wide range of themes .The museum library, featuring rare editions and much archive and photographic material, caters for the needs of both researchers and the general public.

Dormition of the Virgin (El Greco)

Episkopi Gonias

El Greco painted his Dormition of the Virgin near the end of his Cretan period, probably before 1567. El Greco's signature on the base of the central candelabrum was discovered in 1983. The discovery of the Dormition led to the attribution of three other signed works of "Doménicos" to El Greco and then to the acceptance as authentic of more works, signed or not , painted in 1566).This discovery constituted a significant advance in the understanding of El Greco's formation and early career. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements. El Greco is now seen as an artist with a formative training on Crete; a series of works illuminate the style of early El Greco, some painted while he was still in Crete, some from his period in Venice, and some from his subsequent stay in Rome.The icon, which retains its function as an object of veneration in the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in Syros, was probably brought to the island during the Greek War of Independence. The icon conforms closely to the established pattern for this subject, which was very common in the Orthodox Church in which El Greco was raised and was influenced by. Nevertheless, it has lost some elements of the traditional Byzantine austerity, adopting traits of the Renaissance engravings.The composition of the Burial of the Count of Orgaz has been closely related to the Byzantine iconography of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The examples that have been used to support this point of view have a close relationship with the icon of the Dormition by El Greco that was discovered in 1983 in the church of the same name in Syros. Marina Lambraki-Plaka believes that such a connection exists. Robert Byron, according to whom the iconographic type of the Dormition was the compositional model for The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, asserts that El Greco as a genuine Byzantine painter worked throughout his life with a repertoire of components and motifs at will, depending on the narrative and expressive requirements of the art.

Monastery of Saint John the Theologian

Patmos

The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian is a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in 1088 in Chora on the island of Patmos. UNESCO has declared it a World Heritage site. It is named after St. John of Patmos.

Gemäldegalerie

Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece

Als Gemäldegalerie oder Pinakothek wird ein Kunstmuseum bezeichnet, das hauptsächlich Werke der Malerei ausstellt. In der Regel handelt es sich um eine Dauerausstellung.