Spyros Vassiliou (Greek, 1902-1985), Mirror and Talisman, 1974. Acrylic, collage and gold leaf on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm.
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Gold armband with Herakles knot
Hellenistic period
3rd–2nd century BCE
Gold inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel
3 1/2in. (8.9cm)
The Herakles knot on this sumptuous armband is enriched with floral decoration and inlaid with garnets, emeralds, and enamel. According to the Roman writer Pliny, the decorative device of the Herakles knot could cure wounds, and its popularity in Hellenistic jewelry suggests that it was thought to have the power to avert evil.
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece
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Hand of a Kore holding a fruit, Attic workshop, 6th century BC, marble, Acropolis Museum, Athens.
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Maria Filopoulou - Ancient Pool, Ierapolis (2009)
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Zisis Bliatkas (Greek, 1992) - The Woodcutter (2022)
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George Thomas Georgiadis (1933-2010)
Getting Ready
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Daniel Gounaridis — The City II (acrylic on canvas, 1974)
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Maria Filopoulou (Greek, 1964), La serre [Greenhouse], c.1996. Oil on canvas, 204 x 193.5 cm.
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Greek Gold diadem with Hercules knot (250–150 BCE),
Gold, garnet, carnelian, sardonyx
3×9 1/8 in. (7.6 × 23.1 cm).
On loan to the Metropolitan Museum.
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Dance of the Nymphs by Nikolaos Gyzis (19th Century)
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