Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

[...] The icons presented in this exhibition come from the Velimezis Collection, which was formed by Emillios Velimezis (1902-1946) during the years 1934-1946. The collection initially comprised approximately 90 icons from various regions of Greece, dating from the 15th to the 19th century. [...]

When I was writing the first short guide to the Benaki Museum, in 1980, I had to make an almost superhuman effort to articulate a vast material into discrete chapters with a comprehensive and coherent line of reasoning. At that time the arrangement of the objects in the Museum was based on the principle of exhibition units by kind, which was, of course, completely contrary to my own views and vision. Today, after the enlargement of the Museum's premises and the radical remodeling of the original building, but above all the reorientation of the Museum's aims and the fundamen...