The Labours of the Months: April
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: April, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-january#painting-group-info Whan ...
Kanaris Burning the Turkish Flagship
Nikiforos Lytras, 1832-1927Kanaris Burning the Turkish Flagship, 1873, oil on canvas, 143x109 cm, Averoff Gallery, Metsovo, Greece https://www.averoffmuseum.gr/kanaris-burning-the-turkish-flagship/?lang=en “Mais le bon Canaris, ...
Celebrating the Greek Revolution of 1821
Johann Georg Christian Perlberg, 1806-1884Drums for the War of Independence - Young Drummer in Missolunghi, oil on canvas, 48.5 x 34.5 cm, Private Collectionhttps://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/2897144/ and ...
Unidentified Byzantine Building in Constantinople known today as Kefeli Mosque
Nicholas V. Artamonoff, 1908-1989Kefeli Mosque in Istanbul, Nave and Apse from the south, March 1936, Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection http ...
Clean Monday Feast
Spero Vassiliou, 1903-1985Clean Monday Feast, 1950, oil on wood, 125x78, Municipality of Rhodes Museum of Modern Greek Arthttps://paletaart.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/%CE%B2%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-%CF%83%CF%80%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%BF%CF% ...
Teaching with Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna, 1431-1506Camera degli Sposi, The West Wall: The Meeting, (detail of the left panel), 1465-74, Walnut oil on plaster, Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantuahttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Mantegna_075.jpg?uselang=it ...
Boat of Greeks
Dionysis Tsokos, 1820-1862Boat of Greeks, 1844 to 1847, oil on canvas, 29x23 cm, Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greecehttps://www.averoffmuseum.gr/boat-of-greeks/?lang=en “…Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! / On Suli’s rock, and Parga’s ...
Villa Poppaea
Villa Poppaea (garden view), 1st century AD, ancient Roman town of Oplontis (Torre Annunziata between Naples and Sorrento, in Southern Italy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Poppaea A traveller cruising by boat in the Bay o ...
The Labours of the Months: March
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: March, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-march Dear March – Come in – / H ...
Cleobis and Biton
Polymides of Argos, a Greek sculptor of the Archaic Period (6th century BC)The two Kouroi of Argos, known as Cleobis and Biton, dedicated to Delphi by the city of Argos, 580 BC, marble, H. 1.97 m, Archaeological Museum of Delphihttps://alchetron.com/Kleo ...