Church of Chrysospiliotissa, Kato Graikiko, Tzoumerka, Greece – Μονή Χρυσοσπηλιώτισσας, Κάτω Γραικικό, Τζουμέρκα

Στο Κάτω Γραικικό Τζουμέρκων, στην κοινότητα Γουριανά υπάρχει μια χωμάτινη διαδρομή (περίπου 3 χιλιόμετρα) που σε πηγαίνει στη Μονή Χρυσοσπηλιώτισσας. Σήμερα

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Christ’s Passion in the Thyssen – Bornemisza Museum of Madrid

Christ’s Passion is the pivotal event for Christians all over the world. This is the reason that it has been

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Can the Middle East migrant crisis be contained?

The migrant crisis has reached an acute  state in Greece and Europe for more than one year now. Millions of people

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Renato Guttuso: pictor diabolicus, “devilish painter”?

I was introduced to the work of Renato Guttuso back in 1996, when Whitechapel Gallery in London exhibited some of

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The painter Francis Bacon on Crucifixion

Introduction Crucifixion is the subject that attests to the fragility, the futility, the horror and at the utter impossibility of life. Live is

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Sheikh Beddredin (Badraldin Mahmoud Ben Israel Ben Abdulaziz): Preacher and Rebel

It is almost ironic that one of the bloodiest chapters of Sheikh Bedreddin’s rebellion in 1416-1420 was written on the

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Dormition of the Theotokos – Η Κοιμηση της Θεοτοκου

Σημερα ειναι Δεκαπενταυγουστος. Αντιγραφω απο το βιβλιο “Προς Εκκλησιασμο” του Νικου Γαβριηλ Πεντζικη. Today is the 15th of August and

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Stations of the Cross: Giandomenico Tiepolo, San Polo Church, Venice Italy and Art Institute, Chicago USA

Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was the son of Giambattista Tiepolo, a master of painting. He never achieved the status and fame

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A Cretan Madonna in Venice: Mesopanditissa in Santa Maria della Salute (Saint Mary of Health)

Edited on the 20th August 2024 The ties between Byzantium and Venice are centuries’ old. One of the major components

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Real Greece – Part IV: Aegean Sculpture – A Church in the village of Marpissa, Paros, Greece

I was for a few days on the island of Paros, Greece, where one night I saw under the weak

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