Google Art Project Offers Digital Tour of Greek Museums

 

Google is extending its artwork collection by including, among others, the Museum of Acropolis, the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Benaki Museum, in its Google Art project. This project offers a virtual and online presentation of hundreds of museum exhibits from around the world.

Art and the War of Independence of 1821

All great events in history inspire and move the artist to create and share with the world, the joys, sorrows and the machinations of the human soul.


In the words of the great French writer Andre Gide: 

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.


Here we share with you two great paintings of a momentous time in the history of Hellas.

 The Bishop of Old Patras Germanos Blesses the Flag of Revolution by Theodoros Vryzakis (1814-1878) - O Παλαιών Πατρών Γερμανός ευλογεί τη σημαία της Επανάστασης

Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi by Eugène Delacroix - La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi