Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
Georgios Jakobides
Jakobides in his studio, photographed by Carl Teufel, 1883
Children's Concert
Grandma's Favorite
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods. It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the Byzantine era and absorbed Italian and European ideas during the period of Romanticism, until the Modernist and Postmodernist.
Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry making.
The Stag Hunt Mosaic at the Archaeological Museum of Pella (3rd BC)
Mosaic of Daphni Monastery (ca. 1100)
St Theodora icon by Emmanuel Tzanes, an example of the Cretan School
Ξ—istoria (Allegory of History) by Nikolaos Gyzis (1892)