“Serbian Μedieval Art”

27 May 2013 until 18 August 2013

The Byzantine & Christian Museum, in collaboration with the National Museum of Belgrade, organizes the exhibition “Serbian Μedieval Art”. Τhe medieval culture of Serbia was permeated with West European and Byzantine influences. This Balkan state, Serbia, independent (from 1180 onwards) and powerful under the leadership of Nemanja Dynasty (1166-1371), stood always between the Byzantine world and the West.

“Image and Scripture. Greek Presence in Messina from the Middle Ages to Modernity”

March 23 - August 23, 2013

Museo Interdisciplinare Regionale “Maria Accascina, Messina, Sicily, 23 March - 26 May 2013 Sala Duca di Montalto, Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, Sicily, 5 June - 23 August 2013

The exhibition deals with the Greek presence in Sicily from the Βyzantine era to the 19th century, focusing on the city of Messina, where a flourishing Greek Community existed. A number of Βyzantine and post-Βyzantine icons from the Community’s Church, Saint Nicholas “of the Greeks”, has been the starting point for the exhibition project. The icons were rescued from the ruins of the church by the crew of the Greek warship “Sfakteria” shortly after the big earthquake of the 28th of December 1908, which devastated the city of Messina. They were immediately transferred to Athens, in safety, and a few years later, in June 1915, they entered the Collection of the newly founded (in November 1914) Byzantine & Christian Museum.

20TH- AND 21ST-C. WORKS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE BYZANTINE MUSEUM.

since 13th of April 2011

The Byzantine and Christian Museum boasts an excellent collection of modern and contemporary art. Most of the works in the collection are copies (paintings, casts, mosaics, wall-paintings) of works by 20th-century artists from Greece and abroad, as well as by artist-conservators who have worked at the Museum.