Splendour of Heaven. Greek icons from the Collection of Emilios Velimezis

The honorary patronage of the exhibition:

Lech Kaczyński, President of the Republic of Poland

Karolos Papoulias, President of the Hellenic Republic

It is for the first time that the public in Poland has an opportunity to admire icons coming from divers regions of Greece and created in the period from the 15^th until the 18^th c. by artists - in the majority - coming from Crete or being active there. Crete – and especially its main city Candia (today's Iraklion) was the last important and influential centre of icons painting developing in the territory of the former Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople. \

Visitors are having a unique opportunity to see in the exhibition works of such eminent artists as Emmanuel Tzanes and  Dominikos Theotekopoulos (know as El Greco) who aesthetically determined  Post Byzantine painting. However, this exhibition gives also a very rare occasion to experience painting-patterns – from the Makris-Margaritis Collection – which remain of a great importance to the Modern Greek painting.

The opening of the exhibition Splendour of Heaven in the National Museum in Krakow will be followed by the opening of the new permanent gallery of the Museum where the Ruthenian  icons and the liturgical paraments from the territories of the Old Polish Republic will be presented.  The oldest icons from the collection of the National Museum in Krakow dated to the 15^th and 16^th c. discloses subtle artistic similarities with the Greek icons of the same period, what is visible in a common tendency to apply surface-linear modelling. A particular expression of form and colours, in which a fading brightness and splendour of the magnificent cutlure of the Byzantine Empire is noticeable, has flourished once again it is epigone uprising.

Tickets:

Regular ticket: 14 zł
Concessions: 7 zł
Family ticket (up to 5 persons): 28 zł
Group tickets: 11 zł (regular), 6 zł (cencessions)

The combined entrance ticket for the following exhibitions "Orthodox Art of the Old Polish Republic” held in the Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace and the "Splendour of Heaven; Greek Icons from the Collection of Emilios Velimesis” in the Arsenal of the Princess Czartoryski Museum, will be valid during the period of the exhibition Splendour of Heaven. The entrance ticket allows a single visit of both exhibitions mentioned here above:

Regular ticket: 20 zł
Concessions: 10 zł
Family ticket (up to 5 persons): 40 zł
Group tickets: 16 zł (regular), 8 zł (cencessions)

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Exhibition financed in part by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

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Media patrons:

TVP3 Kraków, AMS, Polskie Radio, Dwójka Polskie Radio, Radio Kraków, Dziennik Polski, Wprost, Sztuka.pl, Art&Business, Polish Market, Onet.pl, Magiczny Kraków,E-Krakow.com/Cracow-Life.com