Tag: Greece

Crete (Greece)

Κρήτη Crete in Art: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ratto di Europa c.1570 National Gallery, London     Births: • El Greco (1541-1614) See also: • Greece | Islands

El Greco

(1541–1614) Doménikos Theotokópoulos Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος The artist’s works: Adoración del Nombre de Jesús late 1570s National Gallery, London Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo c.1570–1575 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Pietà Early 1570s Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Retrato de un hombre 1570–1575…

Sappho

(7th–6th century BC) Σαπφώ Works: ◊ Poems (English) ◊ Poésies (French) ◊ Sappho: A New Rendering (English) Quotes: • Sappho: Quotations Sappho in Art: Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Sappho and Alcaeus 1881 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore     David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) Sapho, Phaon et l’Amour 1809…

Greece

Cities: • Argos • Athens • Chalcis • Chiliomodi • Corinth • Cythera • Eleusis • Heraklion, Crete • Missolonghi • Pella • Piraeus • Stagira • Volos Islands: • Andros • Chios • Crete • Euboea • Patmos • Salamis Regions: • Arcadia • Macedonia • Sparta

Andros (Greece)

Andros in Art: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Baccanale degli Andrii 1523–1526 Museo del Prado, Madrid     See also: • Greece | Islands

Patmos (Greece)

Patmos in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Giovanni Evangelista a Patmos c.1488–1490 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze     Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec Saint Jean à Patmos 1640 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     See also: • Greece | Islands

Apelles

(flourished fourth century BC) Apelles in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Allegoria della Calunnia c.1496–1497 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze     Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’apothéose d’Homère 1827 Musée du Louvre, Paris   Flourished 4th century BC Occupation Painter

Aeschylus

(c.525 BC-c.456 BC) Αἰσχύλος Works: • Αγαμέμνων (Greek) ◊ Agamemnon (English) ◊ Agamemnon (Finnish) • Επτά επί Θήβας (Greek) • Ευμενίδες (Greek) ◊ Four Plays (English) ◊ Lyrical Dramas (English) • Πέρσαι (Greek) • Προμηθεύς Δεσμώτης (Greek) ◊ Prometheus Bound…