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In ancient Greece, a genos (Greek: γένος, "race, stock, kin", [1] plural γένη genē) was a social group claiming common descent, referred to by a single name (see also Sanskrit "Gana"). Most gene were composed of noble families—Herodotus uses the term to denote noble families—and much of early Greek politics seems to have involved ...
Gyzis Nikolaos, Archangel, study for the Foundation of the Faith Gyzis was born in the village of Sklavochori, on the island of Tinos which has a long artistic history. As his family settled in Athens in 1850, he soon embarked on a study at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
This changed during the late stages of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Greek independence movement. [10] [11] For much of the period of the Tourkokratia, the Russians were viewed by the Greeks as the xanthon genos, a fair-haired race and the sole Orthodox power that would liberate Constantinople from the Ottomans. [5]
Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...
Ηistoria (Allegory of History) by Nikolaos Gyzis (1892). Georgios Jakobides, Children's Concert.. Modern Greek art began to be developed around the time of Romanticism.Greek artists absorbed many elements from their European colleagues, resulting in the culmination of the distinctive style of Greek Romantic art, inspired by revolutionary ideals as well as the country's geography and history.
The Genos Center, founded by world-renowned photographer and architectural designer Douglas Isaac Busch, is an inspiring multicultural art gallery and non-denominational chapel with eco ...
The most important artistic movement of Greek art in the 19th century was academic realism, often called in Greece "the Munich School" (Greek: Σχολή του Μονάχου) because of the strong influence from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich (German: Münchner Akademie der Bildenden Künste), [1] where many Greek artists trained.
Since the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, the Greek national aspirations for liberation were expressed in the form of popular oracle and prophecies, some of them alleging to the intervention of fair-haired people (xanthon genos) to help Greeks. [4] [5] In 1656, a prominent Greek clergyman interpreted the "fair-haired people" as the ...