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The Bersha Procession, Middle Kingdom, late 11th Dynasty–early 12th Dynasty, 122010–1961 BC, Egypt, Deir el-Bersha, Tomb 10, shaft A (Djehutynakht), Painted Wood, 66.4 x 8.6 x 42.5 cm, MFA, Boston, MA, USA

The Bersha Procession

May 2, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Egyptian ArtArchaeologyTeaching Resources

The Bersha Procession captivates with refined craftsmanship and vivid detail, transforming humble wood into a lively vision of ritual, devotion, and daily life in ancient Egypt’s afterlife beliefs.

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May Day on Corfu by Charlambos Pachis

April 30, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtModern Greek ArtTeaching Resources

Charalambos Pachis’s May Day on Corfu captures festive tradition with vivid colour and lively detail, preserving a joyful ethnographic moment of music, ritual, and community spirit on the island.

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White-Ground Lekythos, 440-430 BC, Terracotta, Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, Greece

Lekythos in the Canellopoulos Museum

April 25, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Greek ArtTeaching Resources

The white-ground lekythos from the Canellopoulos Museum distils grief into image and gesture, where mourning, memory, and the inevitability of death converge in the quiet language of Athenian ritual art.

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Villa Arianna Fresco of Flora, (Room W. 26),  1st century AD, fresco, 38x32 cm, from Villa Arianna in Stabiae, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

Flora

April 19, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou MythologyRoman ArtTeaching Resources

The fresco of Flora from Stabiae captures Toru Dutt’s floral rivalry in paint, transforming myth into elegance, where spring, beauty, and nature’s abundance merge in delicate harmony.

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Holy Thursday – Μεγάλη Πέμπτη

April 12, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Renaissance ArtTeaching Resources

El Greco’s Agony in the Garden translates the moment of Luke 22:42–44 into visionary intensity, where Christ’s solitary prayer, fractured space, and radiant light express divine submission and human anguish with extraordinary emotional force.

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Portrait of Lucien Pissarro, c.1937, Photograph, black and white, on paper, taken by Lafayette Ltd, London, Tate Archive, London, UK

April by Lucien Pissarro

March 31, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtFrench ArtImpressionismTeaching Resources

Lucien Pissarro’s April, Epping translates Browning’s longing for England into paint, where light-dappled foliage, fresh colour, and broken brushwork evoke an intimate, lived experience of spring in the English countryside.

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Acropolis Museum View of the Exhibition Raiment of the Soul with the original Costume of Kyra Frosyni in the Collection of the National Historical Museum of Athens

Raiment of the Soul

March 24, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Modern Greek ArtTeaching Resources

The exhibition Raiment of the Soul transforms Raiment of the Soul into a living dialogue between history and identity, where Greek traditional costumes become embroidered portraits of memory, spirit, and cultural continuity.

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Head of a royal figure, 1475–1292 BC, 18th Dynasty New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Red Jasper, H. 9.6cm; W. 6.1cm; D. 7.5cm, Al Thani Collection, The Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, France

Perhaps… a Portrait of Hatshepsut!

March 19, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Ancient Egyptian Art

The red jasper Head of a Royal Figure from the Al Thani Collection Egyptian royal head evokes the quiet authority of an 18th Dynasty ruler, where refined carving, idealised features, and material brilliance suggest the enduring power and ambiguity of royal identity in ancient Egypt.

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The Exhibition Poster at the Musée Jacquemart-André

GIOVANNI BELLINI Influences croisées

March 16, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou Italian Renaissance ArtRenaissance ArtTeaching Resources

Giovanni Bellini’s The Philips Madonna reflects the delicate transition from Byzantine inheritance to Renaissance naturalism, where luminous colour, sculptural tenderness, and classical echoes shape an intimate vision of divine motherhood.

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The effigies of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England, 1122-1204, Fontevraud Abbey, France

Eleanor of Aquitaine

March 7, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou French ArtMedieval ArtTeaching Resources

On International Women’s Day, Eleanor of Aquitaine emerges as a powerful medieval queen—intellectual, patron of the arts, crusader, and political force shaping France and England’s history and culture.

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