El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Jerónimo (Saint Jerome as Scholar) c.1610 Oil on canvas, 108 x 89 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York El Greco executed at least five paintings of Saint Jerome. In this version, from the last years…
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo abrazado a la cruz (Christ Carrying the Cross) c.1577–1587 Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During his long career in Spain, El Greco produced numerous paintings of Christ carrying…
El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
(1922–2011) Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης, Michalis Kakogiannis Filmography as Director: Electra 1962 Director: Michael Cacoyannis Starring: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis Zorba the Greek 1964 Director: Michael Cacoyannis Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates The Trojan Women 1971 Director: Michael Cacoyannis…
Alexis Zorbas (original title) Director: Michael Cacoyannis Producer: Michael Cacoyannis Screenplay: Michael Cacoyannis Based on: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Genre: Comedy | Drama Music: Mikis Theodorakis Country: Greece | United Kingdom Language: English | Greek Studio: 20th Century Fox |…
Athens in Art: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Groupe de danseuses c.1895–1897 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Diogène 1860 Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Births: • Fertis, Giannis (1938-2024) • Papamoschou, Tatiana (1964) • Phidias (c.480 BC-430 BC) • Schliemann,…
(1945) Filmography as Actor: Zorba the Greek 1964 Director: Michael Cacoyannis Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates I nuovi mostri 1977 Directors: D. Risi, E. Scola, M. Monicelli Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti Jesus of Nazareth 1977 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Groupe de danseuses (Group of Dancers) c.1895–1897 Pastel on panel, 32.39 × 40.96 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This enigmatic drawing on panel has never before been published. The stamps and numbers on the verso indicate…
Births: • Papas, Irene (1926-2022) Deaths: • Papas, Irene (1926-2022) See also: • Cities | Greece