1821 in arts and culture

Spetsiot and Chian coats, banners and chieftains’ equipment, Greek captives in slave markets and other later provocative orientalist scenes, all immortalised by philhellene painters, French table clocks depicting Kolokotronis or Botsaris but also documents and other artefacts have found, if they hadn’t already, a place in a museum or exhibition, where they address the viewers of the present with their message for the revolution. And other items, since years later Nikos Engonopoulos painted Miaoulis and the Lyceum of Greek Women collected and produced national costumes. These new interpretations are also on display. And up to the present, when Kapodistrias’ image appears in snow globes and Solomos on a magnet and his Evzone outfit is transformed into an expensive, precisely sewn, modern costume, and the heroes become cinematic and theatrical figures.

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