Search Results: Titles starting with J from DEMETRIUS SIATRAS

Benaki Museum 2006. Brand new. In greek. Clothbound, 33x25 cm, 395 pp., 203 color and B/W pictures. // J. Mita - The Life and the Work of Yannis Mitarakis (1867-1963): In this in-depth study, Eugenios D. Matthiopoulos attempts to interpret the themes investigated and technical developments made by the painter, placing the latter's works within the broader historical and social framework and correlating his efforts, on the one hand, with changes in the dominant worldwide artistic paradigm and, on the other hand, with developments in the local horizon of expectations of the art world. The volume contains a researched and documented timeline of the life of Yannis Mitarakis, illustrated with many photographs and documents from the artist's archive, as well as a selection of critical publications from the press of his era. This book also contains a detailed catalogue of solo and group exhibitions in which the artist participated, a detailed bibliography / list of articles concerning his life and… Read More

Benaki Museum 2007. Brand new. Bilingual (greek-french) edition. Soft cover, 22x22 cm, 214 pp., 145 plates. This publication was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition “Jean Cocteau and Greece”, which was organised at the Benaki Museum (18/05/07 - 29/07/07). It includes “Cocteau the Greek” and “Jean Cocteau, biographical references”, texts by Michel Bepoix, curator of the exhibition; and “Greece is an a idea – The dialectic relationship Jean Cocteau had with Greece” by Yiannis Kontaxopoulos, who studies the work of Jean Cocteau. The catalogue also includes all the exhibits, drawings, oil paintings, ceramics and jewellery, whose common theme is Greek mythology and which reveal the particular relationship Cocteau had with Greek antiquity. // La publicacion fue realizada en el marco de la exposicion "Jean Cocteau y Grecia", organizada en el Museo Benaki (18/05/07 - 29/07/07). Incluye los textos de Michel Bepoix, comisario de la exposicion,… Read More

Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Soft cover, 22x23 cm, 120 pp., 105 colour images; net weight 540 gr.
This photographic book presents, in its entirety, the donation by Eleni Glavani Miller of folk jewellery from Libya. The donor's collecting activities during the nineteen sixties went hand-in-hand with research into the jewellery of the mountain communities in Northern Africa. The conclusions were collated in a study which is included in the first part of the book. The second part contains the objects of the collection, photographs of which are shown and classified according to kind.
[Las joyas de Libia]
Esta obra presenta en su totalidad una coleccion de joyas populares procedentes de Libia, donada recientemente por Eleni Glavani Miller quien, de forma paralela a su actividad de coleccionista, realizo durante la decada de 1960 una investigacion sobre las joyas de las comunidades montanosas del norte de Africa. Las conclusiones de esta investigacion se concentraron en un estudio que se cita en la… Read More

An illustrated history of the Jerusalem' Patriarchate from its foundation. The holy monasteries and their heirlooms are brought together and commented upon for the first time in one edition. Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Hard cover, 34x25 cm, 336 pp., ill. Photos by Y. Yannelos.
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Athens: Epsilon, 2010. Brand new. Broche, 25 cm, 298 p.

Benaki Museum & Agra, 2009. Brand new. Bilingual (gr-en) edition. Soft cover, 27 cm, 125 pp., 100 photos. Exhibition catalogue: includes hand-made jewels from raw materials that include gold, platinum, diamonds, pearls, and in some instances silver and special colours (acrylics and pigments).

Series: Venetian Sources of Cretan History, No. 13. Heracleion, 2020. Soft cover, 24 cm, 288 pp. ISBN: 978-960-7970-85-5.Contains 80 wills drawn up by the notary Johannes Dono at Jandax, Crete, between the years 1416 and 1422.

Series: Analecta Vlatadon, No. 50. In English. Hard cover, 24 cm, 300 pp.
CONTENTS:
APOLOGETICS DEFINED - EARLY CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS - APOLOGETICS WITHIN THE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM - THEOLOGY AS UNDERSTOOD BY CHRYSOSTOM. CHRYSTOSTOM'S CONSEPT OF APOLOGETICS. THE INVINCIBILITY OF TRUTH; CONDESCENSION. THE TWO PARTS OF APOLOGETICS - CHOISE OF WORKS TO BE STUDIED - THE PROLIFIC WRITINGS OF CHRYSOSTOM. RELEVANCE AND MATERIALITY OF THE WORKS CHOSEN - METHOD - THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND - THE EUNOMIAN POSITION ON THE KNOWABILITY OF GOD. THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION ON THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD - CHRYSOSTOM'S HOMILIES DE INCOMPREHENSIBILI - THE ANOMOEANS AS A HERESY - METHOD & CONTENT OF CHRYSOSTOM'S APOLOGETIC - THE ESCHATOLOGICAL ARGUMENT - THE LIMIT OF HUMAN KNOWLEGDE - THE CONCEPT OF MEASURE - GOD'S ATTRIBUTES ARE INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO MEN - THE IMPIETY OF INVESTIGATING GOD - PERIERGIA: BACKGROUND OF THE ACCUSATION - GOD IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE HEAVENLY… Read More

Athens: Sokole-Kouledake, 2012. Brand new. Bilingual (greek-english) edition. Hard cover, 72 pp., ill. A book on the life and art of two famous English artists.
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Ιωάννου του Ευγενικού, Λόγος αντιρρητικός του βλασφήμου και ψευδούς όρου του εν Φλωρεντία συντεθέντος κατά την προς Λατίνους σύνοδον
Antirrheticus adversus Concilii Florentini definitionem
Critical edition. Contains the original text in mediaeval (Byzantine) Greek; notes and comments in English. Soft cover, 31 cm, XLV+250 p. : ill., facs. net weight 1360 gr. ISBN:

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Facsimile repront of the 1870 edition. In French. Soft cover, 22 cm, 112 pp.
Benjamin Brue, a dragoman of the French ambassador to Constantinople, cites the evolution of military and political events related to the abolition of the short-lived second period of the Venetian Rule in the Peloponnese (1687-1715). Brue, with more than thirty years of service in the diplomatic service of France, was deeply acquainted with the Ottomans and their empire. He spends the day of the campaign of Grand Vizier Ali Pasha "Dasmat" (May 22 - November 23, 1715) and quotes the analytical composition and expense of the expeditionary corps. Brue's calendar was published and by the French archaeologist and explorer Albert Dumont (1842-1884).
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Broché, 24 cm, 400 p. Les relations entre la France et l'Empire Ottoman, basees sur les Capitulations successivement reprises, s'intensifierent au XVIIIe siecle, renforcant les echanges commerciaux et politiques. Dans ce cadre de relations qui se voulaient amicales, la France, pays en plein developpement scientifique et technique, essaya de vendre sa technologie militaire a l'Empire Ottoman; ces tentatives transparaissent continuellement dans les notes et les lettres qui forment la matiere de cette publication. Lafitte-Clave, ingenieur francais, (...) envoye en Turquie en 1783 en qualite de major du Genie, il defendit le fort de Kinburn contre les troupes de l'imperatrice Catherine II. Sa mission fut de lever des plans et des cartes de la Mer Noire, en particulier du canal du Bosphore et des cotes voisines d'Europe et d'Asie, dans le but de renforcer les forts existants et d'en construire de nouveaux pour la defence de Constantinople. Ces instructions faisaient suite a un travail semblable effectue… Read More

Bilingual (Greek-English) exhibition catalogue. Soft cover, 28 cm, 25 pp., ill.
Presents the history and the coinage of Greek islands and it includes maps and photographs of 34 coins from the Alpha Bank Collection.

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Athens, 2009. In English. Soft cover, 27x24 cm, 249 pp., 183 photos. ISBN: 978-960-476-050-3.
This book records how Greeks emigrated to America and settled there during the period 1890-1980, through photographs discovered in American archives by Maria Eliou and the non-profit organization Proteas. This photographic album, which is based on the exhibition of the same name, organised by the Benaki Museum in January 2007, as well as the documentary of the same name, is divided into three chapters: I. Immigrants 1890-1920; II. American citizens 1920-1960; III. Greek Identity 1960-1980.
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In french. Soft cover, 24 cm, 390 pp.