The Byzantine Museum in Athens has opened its new permanent exhibition titled “From Byzantium to the Modern Era”.
The exhibition features the Museums Post Byzantine Collections on the sections/themes “Venetian Rule and the Greeks”, “Society and art in Venetian Crete”, “Painting in the Ionian Islands: A justifiable hybrid”, “From antibolon to icon”, “The Ottoman conquest and the ‘Genos'”, “The Communities of the Romioi”, “Aspects of Everyday Life”, “Church: Place of worship/site of social cohesion”, “Monasteries: Flowering and brilliance”, “The polymorphism of the 18th century”, “The printed book and the New Hellenism”, “Religious painting in the Hellenic State”, and “Byzantium and Modern Art”.
