Event detailsExhibitionsFrom 30 April 2025 To 29 September 2025 VeneziaWebsite
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This project arose from an idea of the former Greek ambassador to Italy Themistoklis Demiris and the architect Gherardo degli Azzoni Avogadro Malvasia.
At the crossroads of the Byzantine and Venetian figurative cultures, it involves topics related to the arts in Venice’s overseas possessions from the second half of the 15th century to the second half of the 17th, with eclectic artists who could equally produce paintings in the different modes of expression, the evolution of the themes represented and their adaptation to the tastes of clients. The emphasis is placed on the discovery of the Renaissance in Greece in the development of art in the last years of the rule of the Palaiologos family, not so much on Venice’s mastery of the sea, or even the continental dialectics between Crete and Greece, as underlined by the presence in the exhibition of paintings by El Greco, projected into a European creative environment that transcends the period when they were produced.
Numerous paintings are preserved in Venice by the Museo Correr and the Museo delle Icone at the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini, as well as in private collections in Italy and abroad.
The exhibition will be held in the Doge’s Palace, given the importance of Venice’s close ties with Crete, Constantinople and Greece, forming a further bond between the two European countries.
