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The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works
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Theodoros Poulakis: Icon illustrating the Hymn to the Virgin, 17th century
Adoration of the Magi by Ioannis Permeniates
Adoration of the Magi by El Greco
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Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nic
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…collection of Ottoman art from the Empire's peak in the 16th century. Gallery Adoration of the Magi by Ioannis Permeniates Adoration of the Magi by El Greco Death of Markos Botsaris by Filippo Marsigli Mitre of 1715 St Spyridon and scenes from his life by Theodoros Poulakis Archangel Michael by Theodoros…
Portrait of a Man, a presumed self-portrait c. 1595–1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567, tempera and gold on panel, 61.4 × 45 cm, Holy Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin, Hermoupolis, Syros) was probably created near the end of the artist's Cretan period. The painting combines post-Byzantine and Italian mannerist stylistic and iconographic elements.
The Adoration of the Magi (1565–1567, 56 × 62 cm, Benaki Museum, Athens). The icon, signed by El Greco ("Χείρ Δομήνιχου", Created by the hand of Doménicos), was painted in Candia on part of an old chest.
Adoration of the Magi, 1568, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City