Gallery
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Emmanuel Tzanes: St. Mark the Evangelist, 1657
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Gold-embroidered bridal cushion from Lefkada, 17th-18th centuries
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Henry Pickersgill: Greek maiden, 1829
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Kostis Desyllas: Portrait of Odysseus Androutsos, 1870
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An mitre of 1715 at the museum.
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“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
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“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
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