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In line with this defense of Greek national heritage, archaeological institutes such as the French School of Athens in 1846 were created after the country’s liberation.
For the first time, the exhibition intersects this history of archaeology with the history of the development of the Greek state and modern arts. The excavations of Delos, Delphi or the Acropolis are at the origin of the rediscovery of a colorful Greece far removed from the canons of neoclassicism.
At the end of the 19th century, the great Universal Exhibitions show a new modern Greek art. They are marked by the recognition of the Byzantine and Orthodox identity of Greece.
The «Paris-Athens 1675-1919» exhibition takes place in chronological order and concludes with the works of the Greek group TECHNE, close to the European avant-garde, which were revealed in Paris in 1919.
Greece is a wonderful cradle of art and culture and that is why Europe chose it for mother, taking the mythological name of the princess of Tire kidnapped by Zeus which we also find was used to designate the coast of the Aegean Sea in a hymn to Apollo in seven hundred BC.
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826
oil on canvas, 213 × 142 cm Bordeaux , Musée des Beaux Arts inv.bxe 439