Nicholas Egon - Hardcover

Fani-Maria Tsigakou

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955554209 ISBN 13: 9780955554209

Publisher: Oldacres, 2007

Synopsis

This biography was issued by Oldacres in London and the Benaki Museum in Athens for the Exhibition, NICHOLAS EGON in GREECE . It describes his colourful life and his work from his early abstracts and monumental paintings, his well-known portraits and nudes, to his landscapes of Arabia, Jordan, Iceland and finally Greece. Next to the 220 beautiful colour plates we can read reviews and letters from distinguished critics and art historians about the portraits and landscapes, but also about his many international cultural activities.

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About the Author

Fani-Maria Tsigakou is an art-historian, Curator of the Department of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Benaki Museum in Athens, B.A. in Archaeology from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, PhD in the History of Art at University College, London on Edward Lear in Greece. Her specific research interest is the image of Greece and the Greeks in European paintings and prints, and in Travel-Literature on Greece, from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Her book The Rediscovery of Greece Thames & Hudson, 1981, is considered the basic reference work on this subject. Acknowleged as a world specialist on the subject of Images of Greece by foreign Artists-Travellers, she has written extensively on the subject, given numerous lectures in European and American Institutions and Universities and organised more than fifty exhibitions in Europe and the U.S.A., including NICHOLAS EGON in Greece in April May 2007 at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Her books include: -THE REDISCOVERY OF GREECE, Thames and Hudson, 1981. The book was translated into Greek, German, French, Italian and Spanish. -JAMES SKENE, MONUMENTS AND VIEWS OF GREECE, Athens, 1985 (in English and Greek). -THOMAS HOPE: PICTURES FROM 18th CENTURY GREECE, Published by the British Council and the Benaki Museum, Athens, 1985 (in English and Greek). -LORD BYRON IN GREECE, Athens, 1988 (in English and Greek). -THROUGH ROMANTIC EYES, Alexandria, Virginia, 1991. Published in Greek the following year. -BRITISH TRAVELLERS IN THE MOREA; FROM WILLIBALD TO RUNCIMAN, Monemvasia, 1991 -BRITISH IMAGES OF GREECE FROM THE BENAKI MUSEUM COLLECTIONS, thens, 1995. -EDWARD LEAR'S GREECE., Athens, 1997. -ANDREAS VOURLOUMIS, Athens, 1999. -I. MORALIS. ANGELS, MUSIC, POETRY (in Greek), Athens, 2001. -THESSALONIKI BY ARTISTS-TRAVELLERS OF THE 19th AND 20th c., Athens, 2003 -NICHOLAS EGON, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2007 Oldacres London (in English and Greek) -ATHENS THROUGH THE EYES OF ARTISTS-TRAVELLERS, 16TH-19TH CENTURY, Athens, 2007 (in English and Greek)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oldacres
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0955554209
• ISBN 13: 9780955554209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 233