Modern Greek art
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Modern Greek art is art from the period between the emergence of the new independent Greek state and the 20th century. As Mainland Greece was under Ottoman rule for all four centuries, it was not a pa
Athena column by Leonidas Drosis in front of the Academy of Athens (modern).
Georgios Jakobides, Children's Concert.
Lady knitting by Périclès Pantazis.
Ioannis Altamouras, The port of Copenhagen.
Cretan school
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The Cretan school describes an important school of icon painting, under the umbrella of post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching i
Modern Greek art
…powers' rule and thus were able to better assimilate the radical artistic changes that were occurring in Europe during the 14th-18th century. The Cretan School and in particular the Heptanese School of art are two important artistic movements in Greece that followed parallel routes to Western Europe. Modern…
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, probably an early Cretan work of 13th or 14th century
Deposition, Lamentation and Resurrection triptych by Nikolaos Zafouris, c. 1490s (National Museum, Warsaw)
Saint Menas by Emmanuel Lambardos (17th century)
Pietà (1566), Benaki Museum