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This fascinating volume offers an original contribution to the study of Aegean architecture in the Greek islands through the ages, from prehistory to the present. It brings together eleven original essays by noted scholars, and is richly illustrated with 320 original photographs. The four introductory chapters provide a comprehensive approach to the history of the Aegean as a single entity. The subsequent seven chapters, examining each group of islands individually (North Aegean & Sporades, East Aegean, Argosa-ronic Islands, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Crete), offer the reader...

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In this richly illustrated book, Stelios Lydakis traces the history of Greek painting from its earliest period in Crete and Mycenae to classical Greek and Roman times. He analyzes all of the significant surviving examples, including the colorful murals of the Minoan Palace of Knossos, the exquisite vase paintings of the fifth century B.C., and the Roman paintings and mosaics that were often copied from earlier Greek works. Lydakis also discusses those works that no longer exist, the so-called "expressions", which became the object of intense study during the Renaissance whe...

"Aegean Islands", the first book in the series "Archaeology", produced by the MELISSA Publishing House, is a review of archaeological activity in the islands of the Archipelago from the nineteenth century to the present day, with emphasis on the most important field research, findings and finds of the last twenty years. The book aims at a comprehensive and collective assessment of the Aegean island world and its culture. This was the basic idea and it is this that we consider is the value and the contribution of the work to the contemporary bibliography, as archaeologica...

[...] The first volume in the series "Archaeology" examined the Aegean islands, excepting Euboea. I had pointed out there that this exception was dictated by the geographical peculiarity of Euboea and its dual -island and mainland- cultural physiognomy over the millennia. The second volume completes the circumnavigation of the islands, opening with the large island of Euboea in the Aegean. It then moves westwards towards the Ionian Sea, covering the southern part of the Greek Mainland, the region known today as Central Greece or Sterea Hellas. During historical times, th...

O τόμος σχεδιάστηκε και εκδόθηκε με αφορμή τη συμμετοχή της Ελλάδας ως προσκεκλημένης χώρας στο Φεστιβάλ Ιστορίας της Τέχνης - Φονταινεμπλώ τον Ιούνιο του 2018 (Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, 2018). Στόχος της έκδοσης είναι να προσφέρει στο διεθνές κοινό μια περιεκτική και τεκμηριωμένη παρουσίαση της ιστορικής ανέλιξης, του τρόπου οργάνωσης και των κατακτήσεων της επιστήμης της ιστορίας της τέχνης στη χώρα μας. Στον τόμο περιλαμβάνονται άρθρα για την ιστοριογραφία, την ιστορία και τη διδασκαλία της ιστορίας της τέχνης των: Νίκου Δασκαλοθανάση, Ευγένιου Ματθιόπουλου, Λε...

The book presents the prehistory of Attica (Neolithic and Bronze Age) first and then focuses mainly on the topography of the city-state of Athens over the centuries from 1050 BC, the beginning of historical times, to the 3rd/4th century AD, which is considered the end of Antiquity. The narration combines a discussion of the topographical, epigraphical and archaeological data, as well as of the great works of ancient Greek art created in Athens during this period.

There is an element of the adventitious, not to say random, in the relation of the borders of the modern Greek state -to which the subject of this volume will be confined- to those of the Byzantine empire and of the foreign countries under which Hellenism subsequently lived for centuries. The modern borders have emerged as a result of the recent vicissitudes of Greece in the century that has recently expired, during which the dogma of nation states was asserted. It could be claimed, however, that these borders, in Old Greece -the Aegean and Ionian coasts, Macedonia and Epir...

The international secondary literature dealing with Greek art of the last two centuries is far from adequate, and the absence of comprehensive studies in the area is compounded by a lack of even the most cursory biographical information about Greek artists. International publications devote very little space to contemporary Greek artists in particular, and what coverage does exist tends to be uneven and -in several cases- misleading. Convinced that this gap has its roots in a failure on the Greeks side to promote artists systematically and convincingly abroad, we strongly b...

Το βιβλίο-πρόταση αποτελεί έναν οδικό χάρτη για μια ιστορική, κοινωνιολογική και πολιτισμική επίσκεψη στην ελληνική δεκαετία του ’80, όπως μπορεί αυτή να πραγματοποιηθεί στις εγκαταστάσεις της Τεχνόπολης του Δήμου Αθηναίων, στο Γκάζι, το 2017.

This book captures the beauty and variety of Greek architectural decoration over three centuries. Glorious color photographs reveal exquisite murals and reliefs, painted and tiled interiors and exteriors, and a wealth of rich, vibrant color. The close-up photographs -many previously unpublished- of facades, doors, windows, floors, and furnishings, offer a tour of richly decorated mansions and public buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in both neoclassical and vernacular styles, as well as of rural homes, churches, and other structures. The informativ...