Title:The Greek Revolution in Art: From Delacroix to Parthenis

Author: Miltiades Μ. Papanicolaou

Publisher: Epikentro

Subject: Art History

Year: 2024

Pages: 216

This study began as a comprehensive research project on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the National Regression, in order to establish an important chapter related to the Greek Struggle. During that heroic period, both during the Revolution and before and after it, art played an important role in the consolidation of an ideology that had continuity in terms of national identity and national self-awareness of the struggling Greeks. The movement of solidarity of European artists towards the Greek Revolution was unprecedented, capturing in their own personal visual writing the sympathy, empathy and recognition of a just struggle, giving ‘form’ to values such as freedom and love for the homeland, bravery and self-denial, religious faith, respect and love for family and companionship, but also an appeal to the country’s glorious cultural continuity. The aim of this book is to show that one can appreciate, evaluate and interpret ideas, politics and cultural events through images, through the analysis of phenomena related to historical events, but also to people, as they were “recorded” visually by the artists of the time, both Greek and foreign.

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