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Byzantine world. Authority and administration.
The Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens is one of the most important public institutions in Greece, established in the early 20th century (1914) in order to collect, study, preserve and exhibit the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine cultural heritage in the Hellenic territory.

The museum collection contains an important number (approximately 30,000) of works of art such as icons, sculptures, ceramics, ecclesiastical textiles, paintings, jewelries and architectural elements (wall paintings and mosaics).

The permanent exhibition is divided in two main parts:

The first is devoted to Byzantium (4th -15th c. AD) and contains 1200 artifacts and the second entitled “From Byzantium to the modern era” presents 1500 artworks dating from the 15th to 20th century.


THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION (click here)
VIRTUAL TOUR(click here)
  
 

Exhibition Units
 
THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
I. From the ancient world to Byzantium
É.1. Old forms-New symbols
É.2. Secular life
É.3. The temples of the new religion
É.4. Christianization of the ancient temples
I.5. Christian Egypt and Coptic art
I.6. "In pastures green": Christians in the face of death

II. The Byzantine World
II.1. Authority and administration
II.2. The age of crisis
ÉÉ.3. Worship and art
ÉÉ.4. The wall paintings of a Byzantine church: Episkopi in Evrytania
ÉÉ.5. Attica: a Byzantine province
ÉÉ.6. Franks and Latins in Byzantium
ÉÉ.7. Aspects of public and private life
ÉÉ.8. The Palaiologan period: The final flowering of Byzantium
ÉÉ.9. The fall of Constantinople

ÉÉÉ. Intellectual and Artistic Activity in the 15th century

IV. From Byzantium to Modern Era
IV.1. Venetian Rule and the Greeks
IV.1a. Society and art in Venetian Crete
IV.1b. Painting in Ionian Islands: a justifiable hybrid
IV.2. From anthibolon to icon
IV.3. The Ottoman Conquest and the "Genos"
IV.3a. The Communities of the Romioi (RUM)
IV.3b. Aspects of Everyday Life
IV.3ã. Church: Place of workship/site of social cohesion
IV.3ä. Monasteries: flowering and brilliance
IV.3å. Ôhe polymorphism of the 18th century
IV.4. The printed book and the New Hellenism
IV.5. Religious painting in the Hellenic State

V. Byzantium and modern art
 
 

Tickets:
Ïëüêëçñï: €4
Special ticket package:
Ïëüêëçñï: €15, ÌåéùìÝíï: €8
Other Photographs of the exhibition
Thematic unit "Old forms - new symbols"
Thematic unit "Secular life"
Thematic unit "The Churches of new religion"
Thematic unit "Christianization of the ancient sanctuaries"
Thematic unit "In pastures green"
View of the hall with exhibition subject "Franks and Latins in Byzantium"
View of the hall with exibition subject "The final flowering"
IV.1á. Society and art in Venetian Crete
IV.1â. Painting in Ionian Islands: a justifiable hybrid
IV.3á. The Communities of the Romioi (RUM)
IV.3â. Aspects of Everyday Life
IV.5. Religious painting in the Hellenic State