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Organized at the Louvre on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821, this «Paris-Athens 1675-1919» exhibition was born from the meeting between lovers of the cultures of the two countries. It showcases the links between Greece and European culture from the first embassies at the end of the 17th century to the exhibitions of modern Greek artists in Paris.
In Greece, the Athens Pinacoteca teams successfully completed their extra- ordinary international inauguration last spring. The year 2021 also marks the bicentenary of the entry of the Venus de Milo into the collections of the Louvre.
In the same year 1821, some European countries supported the Greek War of Independence militarily and financially. Greece, liberated in 1829, proclaimed Athens as its capital in 1834.
The Greek state was then influenced by the German and French presence on its territory and built its cultural identity by drawing on the sources of neoclassicism in these two countries.In the 17th and 18th centuries, the ambassadors on their way to the “Sublime Porte” discovered an Ottoman province in Greece, which was of great interest to artists and intellectuals. The first years of the 19th century saw a clash between European nations eager to collect Greek antiquities. It then became urgent to give back its freedom to Greece.
THE COLUMN OF DANCERS
Plaster workshop of Giovanna Buda between 1896 and 1900 Universal Exhibition of 1900
500 X 86 cm
Paris Louvre museum gypsothèque
Little stable of the King Versailles
INV.GY 0093
Original work circa 330 B.C. preserved in Delphi