Description:
Exhibition catalogue: the most important exhibition ever organised by the Benaki Museum and the most extensive exhibition on modern Hellenism ever presented..
Athens: Benaki Museum, 2021. In English. Soft cover, 23.5 cm, 1218 pp., rich colour illustration (1300 color pictures, maps and drawings); net weight 2080 gr. ISBN: 978-960-476-283-5.
More than 1,200 objects gathered in the exhibition and spread across the 1,218 pages of the accompanying catalogue showcase one hundred years of modern Greek history, between 1770 and 1870. This century begins with the moral and economic preparations for the liberation of the Greeks, reaches an apex with the 1821 Revolution and concludes with the first decades of the operation and development of the new Greek state. Through rare works of art and special testimonies from each era, the three parts of the exhibition and the corresponding chapters of the catalogue offer a fascinating journey of history and art, a journey that in each step reveals why this adventurous… Read More
