Surprised by Time

This is the olive tree from which Anastasios was hanged. That is the story that was told in the little book sold in the church next to the ...

This may be the loveliest picture in the world. Not the greatest, for which Count Orgaz is my current candidate, and Vermeer has a greater ...

Ioannis Gennadios, who referred to Cyriaco of Ancona as a looter , may have known what he was talking about. In the reading room of his lib...

The Skleroi's lovely lady 'Reen and Doukas' Areti, and Goldilocks, three fairest maids ever in Napoli, went out one day...

A recent blog mentions a book by diplomat and bibliophile Ioannis Gennadios on the looting of Greek antiquities, which he apparently iden...

What is wanted here is silence. That the young woman is pregnant is suggested by her unlaced gown, shorter in front than in back. He...

FURY. Athens' students have learned well the lesson of the eighteenth division of the first book of what it means to be Greek. . . ....

Nuns from an icon since the nuns of Ag. Demetrios Karakalas are not to be photographed, although the nuns of Ag. Demetrios Karakalas could n...

This is not Bartolomeo Minio. Minio would never have given his attention to dressing this well, and he couldn't have afforded to. But he...

This pot, or vase, is formally called the Euphronios krater. It dates from about 515 BC – Euphronios was the painter, Euxitheos the potter...