At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th a global widely ranged artistic movement immerged. Modernism. Modernist artists experimented with…
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) was a French artist who was also a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Renoir’s paintings are…
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Summer is not only a favourite subject of music artists. It has also been a frequent motif in many famous paintings. Especially, during the 19th…
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Holy Friday is a day of mourning for the death of Jesus Christ. According to the orthodox ritual the “Epitaphios” is prepared at each church.…
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Easter, which in Greek is called “Pascha”, commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and it is along with his Nativity and The Dormition of the Mother…
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Nikos Hatzikyriakos-Ghikas (1906-1994), was a leading Greek cubist artist, who began his studies as a student of Kosntantinos Parthenis. Combining the principals of Cubism, Post-Cubism,…
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Konstantinos Parthenis (1878-1967) was one of the most important representors of Greek modernism. In fact, he is considered as one of the three “fathers” of…
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Pericles Pantazis (1849 -1884) was a major Greek impressionist painter of the 19th century – a student of Nikiforos Lytras – who gained a great…
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Nikolaos Vokos (1854-1902) was born at Hydra and was the grandson of the famous admiral of the Greek revolution, Andreas Miaoulis. Like his teachers Nikolaos…
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Gyzis, one of Greece’s most important 19th-century painters was a characteristic representative of the Academic Realism, and in particular of the so-called “Munich School”, the…
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