Guide to the Benaki Museum
By: A. Delivorrias ; [translation, Kay Cicellis ; photographs, Makis Skiadaressis]
Contributors: Delēvorrias, Angelos
Publisher: Benaki Museum
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Translated from: gre
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Guidebooks; Greek Art; Art; Decorative arts; Catalogs; Antiquities; Mouseio Benakē
Work titles: Hodēgos tou Mouseiou Benakē
Notes: Translated from Greek: Hodēgos tou Mouseiou Benakē. (Athēna : To Mouseion, 1980).
Table of contents: title: Greek art from the early Bronze Age to the 5th century BC; title: The Hellenistic period, the Alexandrian world and the age of Roman domination from the 4th century BC to the 5th century AD; title: Coptic art and the Christian period in Egypt; title: Byzantine art; title: Collections of Islamic art; title: Post-Byzantine ecclesiastical art and refugee relics from 1922; title: Post-Byzantine painting from the 15th to the 17th century; title: Eleftherios Venizelos, the territorial rehabilitation of Greece, and the Asia Minor disaster; title: 18th and 19th century works on Greek subjects by foreign artists; title: Exhibits from Western Europe; title: Pictures on Greek themes relating to the period of Turkish rule and the first years after Independence (Damianos Kyriazis Room); title: Coptic textiles; title: Islamic art from the 9th to the 15th century; title: The period of the Greek War of Independence, from the earlier attempts at revolt to the assassination of Ionnis Capodistrias, first Governor of the free Greek state; title: The reign of King Otho; title: Exhibits from the reigns of George I and Constantine I; title: Collections of Islamic art; title: Islamic collections : Persian and Indo-Persian art; title: Chinese pottery; title: Greek embroideries; title: Handicraft in the Greek islands; title: Aesthetic attitudes in Attica and Central Greece; title: Handicraft in other regions, from the Peloponnese tp tje cities in Asia Minor; title: Reception-room with carved wood panelling from a Northern Greek house.