President Sakellaropoulou inaugurates Louvre portraiture exhibit at National Gallery. (Photo by Eurokinissi)
ATHENS – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou inaugurated an exhibition of portraits from the Louvre at the National Gallery of Art on Monday evening.
The exhibition, “Seeking immortality: The art of portraiture in the Louvre collections” is part of celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which in France is celebrated by the temporary exhibit “Paris-Athens: The Birth of Modern Greece, 1675–1919” showing at the Louvre.
President Sakellaropoulou inaugurates Louvre portraiture exhibit at National Gallery. (Photo by Eurokinissi)
Referring to the latter, the president said the exhibit “shows the ties Greece has with European culture, linking the City of Lights with the long history of the Greek capital.” It was also the French members of the enlightenment movement who strengthened enslaved Greeks’ spirit, through the intellectual Greeks of the diaspora, inspiring them in their pursuit of liberty and political ties.
The Athens exhibit includes Jacques-Louis David’s iconic “The Death of Marat”, Antoine-Jean Gros’s masterpiece “Bonaparte at the Pont d’Arcole”, but it spans more than 3,000 years of history starting with Middle East and Egyptian portraits and including works by Botticelli, El Greco, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Goya, Reynolds, David, Ingres, Delacroix and others.
Formally opening to the public on December 1, the exhbit will run to March 28, 2022. It has been funded by Citibank Europe Plc/Hellas.
President Sakellaropoulou inaugurates Louvre portraiture exhibit at National Gallery. (Photo by Eurokinissi)
President Sakellaropoulou inaugurates Louvre portraiture exhibit at National Gallery. (Photo by Eurokinissi)
NEW YORK – American Ballet Theatre (ABT) has returned to the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time in three years for its summer season, June 13-July 16.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
PHILADELPHIA – The Federation of Hellenic Societies of Philadelphia and Greater Delaware Valley announced that the Evzones, the Presidential Guard of Greece will be participating in the Philadelphia Greek Independence Day Parade on March 20.
O oceanic you sing and sail
White on your body and yellow on your chimeneas
For you're tired of the filthy waters of the harbors
You who loved the distant Sporades
You who lifted the tallest flags
You who sail clear through the most dangerous caves
Hail to you who let yourself be charmed by the sirens
Hail to you for never having been afraid of the Symplegades
(Andreas Empeirikos)
What traveler has not been fascinated by the Greek islands, drawn by the Sirens’ song of a traveler’s dreams?
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