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24/03/2024

🐴 The Charioteer

🔝Located at the Delphi Archaeological Museum, the life-size bronze statue of the “Charioteer” is uniquely rare. It was unearthed during the Grand Excavation of the Delphi Archaeological site in 1896 and at that time it was the first large-scale bronze statue of the Antiquity discovered. The Ancient Greeks were experts and great masters of bronze casting. However the problem with bronze statues is that they did not survive through the years mostly because of looting. Bronze is a useful, semi-precious and practical metal and the statues were either melted for their worth or looted and stolen from places of worship. Especially military needs dictated the melting of such statues unlike their marble counterparts.

⚡️The “Charioteer” managed to survive due to a natural catastrophe, as it was burried during the earthquake of 373BC. Its excavation caused great enthusiasm in the archaeological world since it was the first large-scale bronze statue discovered. Many years later, we would retrieve from the bottom of the sea the Riace warriors and the Poseidon/Zeus of Artemision. These also life-size bronze sculptures are of equal artistic value and craftsmanship and give us a broader idea of the genre.

🐎Regarding the theme and the overall composition, the Charioteer was not produced to be by himself. Although scholars have not reached a unanimous opinion on the matter, the Charioteer was most probably part of a larger bronze composition representing a Quadriga (tethrippon). This was an Olympic sport that took place on the second day of the Olympic Games. During this equestrian race, the tethrippon (four-horse chariot) would race in the Hippodrome completing 12 laps. The origin of the sport is found in military customs of the Achaeans. Unfortunately the 4 horses and the chariot that the young Charioteer would stand on, have not survived.
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📸 except for the last from theoi.com

11/09/2023

Εύα Γρυπάρη 🤍 11-20 Σεπτεμβρίου 🎨

Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Μυκόνου "Μαρία Ιγγλέση", αίθουσα Σ. Συριώτη
Ατομική Έκθεση Ζωγραφικής “Το νησί” – Ευγενία Γρυπάρη

Η Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Μυκόνου φιλοξενεί την έκθεση της εικαστικού Ευγενίας Γρυπάρη με
τίτλο “Το νησί” στην αίθουσα Συριώτη, στην Χώρα Μυκόνου.
Η έκθεση παρουσιάζει έργα εμπνευσμένα από την ομορφιά των Κυκλάδων. Πρόκειται για μια
ωδή στο ελληνικό καλοκαίρι και ένα περίπατο στις αναμνήσεις και στην ενέργεια του τόπου
της Μυκόνου. Οι γυναικείες μορφές εμπλέκονται με το τοπίο σαν ένας οργανισμός,
απεικονίζοντας έτσι μεταφορικά τη γαλήνη, την ισορροπία και την ομορφιά που μας δίνει το
νησί. Στιγμιότυπα καλοκαιρινής ραστώνης και ανεμελιάς σε αποχρώσεις του μπλε.
Διάρκεια έκθεσης: 11-20 Σεπτεμβρίου 2023
Εγκαίνεια: Δευτέρα 11 Σεπτεμβρίου και ώρα 8:00 μ.μ
Ώρες λειτουργίας 17:30-00:30

01/05/2023

🌸 Καλή Πρωτομαγιά! Happy 1st of May!!

💪🏽 May 1st, 1886 was a landmark date for workers all around the world! In Chicago, USA workers striked in order to stabilize and officiate an 8-hour working day! We owe a lot to them and the day is a strike worldwide to commemorate the fights for working rights!

💐 It is also a celebration of flowers and transition from Springtime to Summer!

🇬🇷 Throughout Greece workers and employees strike to honor these fights. Also special writhes are made for the day with all types of flowers found in nature during the end of April, right in the heart of Spring!

📸 wishes you all the best for the upcoming Summer

12/03/2023

🏛 On Sundays we go to the temples

25/12/2022

Merry Christmas! ✨✨

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445-1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli -- or Il Botticello, "The Little Barrel" -- was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, expressed at the head of Vasari's Life of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation, damaged initially by his association with the religious fanatic Savanarola, suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting. Among his best known works are "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera," both of which you'll find in this gallery (with many "close-ups"), as well as everything else that can be attributed to him.

Those who know Botticelli through his allegorical works will be surprised to discover that he, like his contemporaries, was primarily a painter of religious subjects -- and they may even leave impressed at the different ways he managed to infuse his ideal of beauty into a limited range of themes.

Since many of these paintings are extra-wide in format, or are cram-packed with detail, this gallery also presents their individual sections, along with many "close-ups" of interesting details.

As with all MWW exhibits/galleries, the order after the first few images is chronological, and the commentary section for most pictures has background information and essays from reputable sources. (You will have to click "See More" in the box to the right of the full-screen image to access these.)

See also these other MWW galleries on Italian art:
* Trecento: The 14th c. Italian Masters
* Quattrocento:The 15th c. Italian Masters
* Cinquecento I: Raphael - Paintings & Vatican Frescos
* Cinquecento II; The High Renaissance (1500-1540)
* Cinquecento III: The Venetian Mannerists
* The Sistine Chapel Up Close and Personal
* From Caravaggio to Tiepolo: Italian Painting 1580-1770
* Renaissance People I: A Portrait Gallery 1450-1525
* Renaissance People II: A Portrait Gallery 1526-1580

12/11/2022

🇮🇹 Roma grazie per l'Art 🎨 all 📸

1. Raphael, School of Athens, 1509-1511, fresco (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican)
2. Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and his Sons, early first century C.E., marble, (Vatican Museums)
3. Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508–12, fresco (Vatican City, Rome)
4. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Narcissus at the Source, 1597-99, oil on canvas(Palazzo Barberini, Rome)
5. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25, marble (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
6. Raphael, La Fornarina, ca. 1520, Oil on panel (Palazzo Barberini, Rome)
7. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Boy with a basket of fruit, ca. 1595, oil on canvas (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
8. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1647-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome)
9. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Judith beheading Holofernes, ca. 1600, oil on canvas (Palazzo Barberini, Rome)
10. Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, ca. 1514, oil on canvas (Galleria Borghese, Rome)

20/03/2022

🐚 The Ionian blue is a dream! This paradise on Earth welcomes thousands of visitors every summer who are stunned with its beauty! Today, on March 20th, the beach was completely empty and it was a totally different experience! One cannot take so much beauty!
🌊 The turquoise and crystal blue waters are amazing to watch.. Hope to have a chance to experience such a paradise soon! Are you planning of visiting such a beach this summer?

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06/02/2022

🎨 𝒮𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒜𝓇𝓉!

04/12/2021

2021!
The 7th one called Eclipse.

Truly a great exhibition of contemporary art.

Visit to read more on their post appreciating our photos!

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18/11/2021

𝐏𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞

🏃🏽Pheidippides is the heroic figure that inspired the Marathon race. The race was first introduced in the modern Olympic Games in 1896 that took place in Athens. It traces Pheidippides footsteps running from Marathon to Athens the total distance of 42,195 meters after the Greeks defeated the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The Athenian victors sent him to announce to their fellow citizens the good news from the battlefield.

🙏🏽 This long route was not the only one that Pheidippides ran during those historical days of 490 BC. Almost a week ago, as the Persian ships were headed towards Attica, the Athenians decided to send a herald to Sparta to ask for help. They chose him because he was an Athenian by birth and a trained runner by profession and practice.

🌞 In order to be more specific, he was a hemorodromos which literally means a day-long runner. Hemerodromoi were neither athletes nor messengers, but more of something sacred. They covered incredible distances, more than a 100 km a day, over mountainous and rocky terrain. This is why they did not move on a horse. They were often food and sleep deprived in order to deliver the message from one city to another and carry out their sacred duty as long-distance messengers.

📯 So, the generals camped at Marathon sent Pheidippides to Sparta to present with a compelling case why the great military force of Greece should mobilize and fight at Marathon alongside the Athenians. Let us not forget that they were not at great terms with each other! Upon reaching Sparta, Pheidippides argued that the enslavement of all Greece to the barbarians was at stake.

😩 The Spartans were convinced but did not move nonetheless. Spartan law dictated that they should not set off to battle until the moon was full and their religious festivities were over. Pheidippides had to run all the way back to Marathon with these terrible news. Within 2 days he had run from Athens to Sparta and back to Athens, a total of almost 500 km. It is impossible to even think of such a distance on foot during our days. It is a distance like 10 Marathon races!

✨ He finally returned to Marathon on time to fight the battle. When the Athenians won, they sent him back to Athens to share the wonderful news with the City. As he reached the Agora, he shouted and dropped dead of exhaustion. The reason we celebrate this last route with the is because there nothing holier and more sacred than dying after doing a heroic deed for one's country.

24/05/2021

🌍 Regarding the wildfire on the western coast of Attica, we feel heartbroken.

🌳Nature is THE most important treasure. And it is our obligation to protect it.

🌲 During last week, 21 sq miles (55 sq km) of pine forest were burned down !!
It was part of the Natura network of nature conservation sites.

😔 Intentional or accidental, it is the worst kind of disaster.

🙏🏽 Please pay attention to your actions during the summer, in order to preserve our treasured home.

Thank you! 🤍

Photo from a secret, hidden and remote beach called the Cave of the Seal.☺️
It is located between Loutraki and Alepochori in the area that suffered the wildfires.

📸 credit

29/03/2021

👆🏽 𝙾𝚗 𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕

Athens as seen from the top of the Acropolis is magnificent.
It seems like this block of stone spurred out of nowhere to create the most iconic combination of natural and man-made beauty of the ancient world! 👀

Acropolis literally translates into 𝘢𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘯 meaning highest, furthest point and 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴 meaning city. So it is a name well given !

⛰The hill stands 156 meters above sea level. It is not a lot, but it really stands out because it is extremely steep and the rest of Athens sits on a flat basin.
Exceptions on the flatness of the Athenian basin are Mount Lycabettus being 277 meters high and Tourkovounia hill being the tallest of them all standing at 338 meters.

🛏 The Acropolis hill is like a table or a bed. Very steep and tall and its top is very flat rather than pointy. It is 300 meters long and 150 meters wide. (I apologize to my American friends but I don't do well with feet 😓) On top, there is the beautiful and complex archaeological site with its most revered treasure, the Parthenon.

🌇 From up there you can gaze upon Athens like you are on top of a 45 stories skyscraper. The view is amazing and on a clear day you can see as far as the Saronic gulf. You have a holistic and 360 gaze upon the city.

🏛 In this picture taken few days ago, you see a southeastern glimpse from on top of the hill looking down on the Panathenaic stadium and the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

🙌🏽 If you are in Athens, it is the perfect time to make a visit! Feel free to share your feelings!

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