Antoniadou Stella, diploma exhibition, Florina 2015
This is a video presentation of my diploma exhibition which took place in Florina, Greece in October 2015.
University of Western Macedonia, faculty of fine and applied arts.
Arts & Antiques CCR | Anastasis Leonoglou interview
Anastasis Leonoglou delivered a deeply conceptual sculpture series, perhaps the most complete of his current works which discusses different aspects of inception of the Home. Anastasis has been working with the Greek Marble Initiative in Myro Antiques House premises in Souroti, Thessaloniki in the summer 2015 in these series. In this interview the sculptor talks with the Greek Mable Initiative co-ordinator and curator Paris Kapralos, to let us see through to his inspiration and way of perceiving his art.
Anastasis Leonoglou graduated from the School of Fine & Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia situated in Florina in 2011. He is holding a degree of Sculpture under the known greek sculptor Prof. Hector Papadakis. He has shown his works in more than 10 group exhibitions and projects all over Greece, while he has been contributing or taking part in performances and other actions. His works consist of a variety of materials, and his context is a social and political one, with strong statements on the misuse of the Media and the misleading of the crowd. In addition, he has built installations in public space, focusing on similar issues. Tasos joined the Greek Marble Initiative Symposium as a Guest Artist at the Summer 2014 International Symposium on Marble Sculpture, later appointed the Associate title for his devotion and progress in style. He has exhibited with the Initiative in many occasions.
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Λαογραφική Συλλογή Πολυποτάμου. Folklore Museum
Η Λαογραφική Συλλογή Πολυποτάμου της Φλώρινας είναι από τα καλύτερα Μουσεία της ορεινής αγροτικής ζωής της Μακεδονίας.
Σεληνόφως - ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ - Part 2 of 4
Σεληνόφως - ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ - ΜΕΡΟΣ 2 ΑΠΟ 4
ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΦΡΑΓΚΟΥΣ ΣΤΟ ΦΟΙΝΙΚΑ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑ
Στα πλαίσια της σειράς «Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ» παρουσιάζεται η μετάβαση από το Βυζαντινό στο Ευρωπαϊκό Νόμισμα. Γίνεται λόγος για τις εμπορικές συναλλαγές στην Φραγκοκρατούμενη ΕΛΛΑΔΑ και για τα πρώτα Νομίσματα που κυκλοφόρησαν και κόπηκαν στην ΓΛΑΡΕΝΤΖΑ, τα ΤΟΡΝΕΖΙΑ. Το ταξίδι του χρήματος συνεχίζεται με το Βενετσιάνικο Νόμισμα. Οι υπερπόντιες κτήσεις της ΒΕΝΕΤΙΑΣ φαίνονται πάνω στον πλούτο των Νομισμάτων που κατακλύζουν τον ελλαδικό χώρο, όπως τα Μητροπολιτικά Βενετσιάνικα Δουκάτα, ΤΣΕΚΙΝΙΑ, ΤΟΡΝΕΖΙΑ, ΦΛΩΡΙΝΙΑ, ΛΙΡΕΣ και χρυσά, ασημένια και χάλκινα Νομίσματα. Ακολουθεί η Γενουατική περίοδος, όπου στο νομισματοκοπείο της ΧΙΟΥ οι ΤΖΟΥΣΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΙ κόβουν τα πρώτα ΔΟΥΚΑΤΑ. Το ελληνικό Μεσαιωνικό τοπίο συμπληρώνει η νομισματοκοπία της ΡΟΔΟΥ από τους ΙΩΑΝΝΙΤΕΣ ΙΠΠΟΤΕΣ. Στη συνέχεια, η παραδοσιακή τεχνική κοπής νομισμάτων αντικαθίσταται από σύγχρονη τεχνολογία που παράγει τυποποιημένα νομίσματα. Στη σύγχρονη ελληνική ιστορία, το 1828, κυκλοφόρησαν νομίσματα από τον πρώτο κυβερνήτη του νεοσύστατου ελληνικού κράτους ΙΩΑΝΝΗ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑ, ο οποίος αντικατέστησε με τον ΦΟΙΝΙΚΑ το Τούρκικο ΓΡΟΣΙ. Παράλληλα, παρέχονται πολύτιμες πληροφορίες για την ιστορία και τον πολιτισμό των πόλεων, ενώ μέσα από χιλιάδες τύπους νομισμάτων παρελαύνουν οι μορφές θεών και μύθοι, θησαυροί της ανθρώπινης ψυχής, που σχηματίζουν μια αδιάκοπη πορεία ενός πολιτισμού που κατακλύζει τον αρχαίο και μεσαιωνικό κόσμο πάνω από δυόμισι χιλιετηρίδες.
HISTORY OF GREEK COIN - FROM THE FRANCS TO KAPODISTRIAS PHOENIX
In the series THE HISTORY OF GREEK COIN shows the transition from Byzantine to the European Currency. There is talk of trade in Fragkokratoumeni GREECE and the first coins were minted and circulated in Glarentza, the TORNEZIA. The journey continues with the money of the Venetian Currency. The Overseas Territories of Venice appear on the wealth of coins flooding the Greek world, such as Venetian Metropolitan Duchies, TSEKINIA, TORNEZIA, Florina, pounds and gold, silver and bronze coins. Here the Genoese period, where the Mint of the Chios TZOUSTINIANOI cut the first Duke. The Greek Medieval landscape complements the coinage of Rhodes by the IOANNITES KNIGHTS. Then, the traditional technique coinage replaced by modern technology to produce standard currencies. In modern Greek history, in 1828, circulated coins from the first governor of the newly established Greek state Capodistrias, which replaced the Phoenix in the Turkish piastres. At the same time, provide valuable information about the history and culture of cities and through thousands of types of coins parade forms of gods and myths, treasures of the human soul, which form a continuous path of a culture that fills the ancient and medieval world more than two and a half millennia .
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Macedonian Embroidered Dress at Museum of Int'l Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Young Brides, Old Treasures, Macedonian Embroidered Dress at Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Producer- Vasil (Bill) Yancoff
ENG-Andy Atkins
Editor-Louie Dimitrovski
Music-Davor Jordanovski
Heraklion Museum of Visual Arts / Μουσείο Εικαστικών Τεχνών Ηρακλείου
PROJECT: Documentary
CLIENT: Academic Project
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4
DESCRIPTION: The second project in my second year in Multimedia,Nottingham Trent University.
Macedonia a Greek speaking Kingdom, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Macedonia a Greek speaking Kingdom at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Macedonian Treasures at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Robin Lane Fox (born 1946) is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.
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Visitors to Oxford will have the rare opportunity to see the latest discoveries from Aegae at the Heracles To Alexander The Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. At this magnificent Ashmolean exhibition this summer, more than 500 gold, silver and bronze treasures will be on display -- the first time that these treasures are being exhibited outside of Greece.
Historian and Oxford academic, Robin Lane Fox, described the exhibition as the greatest day of classical exhibitions in my lifetime.
Δισπηλιό Καστοριάς - Λιμναίος Οικισμός
Dispilio is an archaeological site containing remains of a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Orestiada in Kastoria regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Wikipedia
Ένας λιμναίος οικισμός στο Δισπηλιό, μαρτυρά πως η περιοχή κατοικούνταν από τα νεολιθικά χρόνια.
Ο προϊστορικός οικισμός που βρίσκεται 8 χιλιόμετρα έξω από την Καστοριά στη θέση «Νησί» ανακαλύφθηκε τυχαία το 1932.
Η πρώιμη φάση του τοποθετείται γύρω στο 5.500 π.Χ. και είναι ένας από τους αρχαιότερους λιμναίους οικισμούς που έχουν ανακαλυφθεί στην Ευρώπη. Τις καλύβες που έφτιαχναν, κυκλικές και ορθογώνιες, τις στήριζαν πάνω σε πασσαλόπηκτες πλατφόρμες.
Pergamon & Asclepion
Today you'll visit Pergamon, the intellectual center of Asia Minor, and an ancient healing center - Asclepion. Pergamon, a center of learning and arts possessed one of the greatest libraries of antiquity. Among the ruins lays an impressive amphitheater, the Temples of Trajan and Dionisus, the Altar of Zeus, the Sanctuary of Demeter, a three terrace gymnasium and the Agora. The next stop is Asclepion, located to the southwest of the lower city, which was a sanctuary dedicated to the god of health, Asclepios. This center was something very similar to a modern natural healing clinic where patients were given exercises, drugs, herbal remedies or the waters of the springs to drink. Galen, who first introduced the notion of experimentation to medicine, was among its famous physicians. You'll make a stop for a shopping opportunity and refreshments. The tour will end with a drive to Izmir.
Note: There is approximately 1 1/4 miles of walking over uneven and cobblestone surfaces with inclines and steps. During summer months, expect crowded venues and long lines as well as temperatures that can reach extreme highs. We recommend that you drink a lot of water, use suitable sun protection and dress in layers. Guests who are planning to visit religious sites during free time or on tour, please dress appropriately; no bare shoulders or shorts are allowed. A cable car is used to transport guests up to Pergamon from the parking area.
Το Εθνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης, στου Φιξ
Η ξενάγηση του δήμαρχου Αθηναίων, Γιώργου Καμίνη στο νέο μουσείο της Αθήνας που αναμένεται να ανοιξει τις πόρτες του τον Μάρτιο του 2014.
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MEMOIRES DU MAI, Mai 2011, Gounaropoulos Museum, part 4
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Πανευρωπαϊκές Νύχτες Μουσείων
Μουσείο Γουναρόπουλου
Πολυτοπικό Δρώμενο
Πρωτότυπη μουσική: Δημήτρης Πετσετάκης
Βίντεο: Ανδρέας Κουτσουβέλης
ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΙ
'The powerful Egyptian goddess Isis had been introduced to Macedonia as early as the third century BCE, possibly be merchants from Alexandria and Asia Minor. Most of the evidence for her cult at Philippi dates to the third through fifth centuries AD; her temple from this era, from which were discovered a number of artefacts, was located on the acropolis hill near several other cult complexes.
Isis, her husband Serapis/Osiris, and their son Harpocrates/Horus eventually became some of the most popular deities in the Roman Empire, both among commoners and the elites of society, but not without sporadic government suppression. Of the three deities in this trio, it was Isis, the mother, who became the most popular when the cult was finally sanctioned in the empire, and it was she who ultimately became the most prevalent deity at Philippi and nearby cities. At Amphipolis, Apollonia, Verroia (Beroea) and Thessaloniki, statues and inscriptions attest to the popularity of her cult, including two Latin inscriptions to “Queen Isis”.
For Egyptians, the association between Isis and a queen was logical. Her name meant “throne”, and she functioned as the divine king-maker. The worship of Isis also included a wide range of divine female manifestations, chief of which was Hathor, a name that literally meant “house of Horus” or “womb of Horus”. Temple dancers used a particular type of necklace with a counterpoise along with a rattle worship of Isis-Hathor. Both ancient Egyptian symbols had associations with the celestial voyage into the afterlife.'
Priestesses And Other Female Cults at Philippi in the Early Christian Era’, by Valerie Abrahamsen, which appears in The People beside Paul: The Philippian Assembly and History from Below, edited by Joseph A. Marchal, Society of Biblical Literature Press, Atlanta, 2015, is available here:
Track: Phara Oh
Artist: Dole & Kom (Thilo Ciesla, Jens Brachvogel, previously known as Clubheroes, Berlin)
Album: Phara Oh Away
Label: 3000° Grad Records
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Photograph: The ruins of the unique, domed, Basilica B (circa 550 AD) at Philippi, Macedonia. Philippi was a city established by Philip II of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) in 356 BC at the site of Crenides, an old colony of the Thasians. Philippi preserved its autonomy within the kingdom of Macedon and had its own political institutions (the assembly of the demos). The objective of founding the town was to take control of the neighbouring silver mines and to establish a garrison at a strategic passage: the site controlled the route between Amphipolis and Neapolis, part of the great Royal route (Vasilikos Dromos) which crossed Macedonia from the east to the west and which was reconstructed later by the Roman Empire as the Via Egnatia. Itself part of the wider road network of ancient Macedonia, Epirus and Thrace, this section of the Vasilikos Dromos was actually following one of the three parallel coastal roads enlarged and ultimately used by Xerxes's vast army during his campaign against Greece in 480 BC. The discovery of a signpost that reads “To [the city of] Vokkeria 100 Stadia” (The stadion was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the length of a typical sports stadium of the time, roughly 157-185 metres depending on the region of Greece; Vokkeria has been successfully associated with Lake Vegoritis) indicates that the pre-Roman Greek road network was sophisticated enough to be signposted. In Imperial times the Via Egnatia became a super busy highway with so much traffic of goods and people along it that Cicero on his return after his stay in Thessaloniki decided to take a different route to save time. Later, Apostle Paul used the same roads. Today the modern road network of the whole region, especially across eastern Macedonia, sits along the same contours, and Egnatia Odos is Greece's most modern motorway. When the Romans built the Via Egnatia, Philippi was a strategic location on the route that connected the ports of the Adriatic Sea in the west to the city of Byzantium and Asian Minor in the east. Apart from Basilica B, Philippi christians constructed two other Byzantine basilicas during the 6th century AD (of which Basilica A was one of the largest churches anywhere in early Christian times) including an octagonal church. The building is square in plan as seen from outside and octagonal in the interior. The octagonal church was built circa 400 A.D. and replaced the first small church dedicated to Apostle Paul. The nucleus of the whole structure is the vaulted tomb-heroon (hero-cult shrine and place of worship) of the late Hellenistic period.
evolution
An other project that I did for my school (Department of Fine and Applied Arts of University of Western Macedonia in Florina).
The subject on this one were the words time, memory, oblivion.
In short, what I am trying to depict is this:
Humanity has evolved into a freakish creature and self extincted. Only machines remain. One of them is fond of the evolution of the species, and that of the humans in particular. So, although we never see it directly (too hard to animate in the time frame that I had then), we can hear it walking inside the Museum of Natural History of London, and sing a favorite tune. Later it will put an old record and we will listen the song too. The scene ends with a view of the demolished museum and a hint of the leveled city.
P.S. Please, do not start a debate about the name Macedonia. I am stating name of the University as it is titled in Greece, there is no political meaning behind it.
ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΙΖΑ ΓΟΥΛΑΝΔΡΗ
Σύντομη παρουσίαση του Βασίλη και της Ελίζας Γουλανδρή, ιδρυτών του Ιδρύματος Β. & Ε. Γουλανδρή και του Μουσείου Σύγχρονης Τέχνης στην Άνδρο.
Παραγωγή: Mindworks
Enchanted landscapes by Merle Sild.wmv
Oilpaintings by estonian artist Merle Sild from 2006-2012
Merle Sild was born in Estonia and has spent the last 11 years living and painting in places such as the USA, Spain, Finland and UK. She has studied in The Art School of Tartu (by talented estonian artists Laine Pukk and Silvia Jo`gever) and in the USA Kaleidoscope Art School, IL, Chicago. In addition, she has gained experience under professional artists in Finland, Estonia and Spain. Merle started exhibiting her art in 2004 in Finland and since then she has presented 18 of her exhibitions in Finland, Estonia, Spain and England.
In summer 2009 Merle moved to Cambridge and in December 2009 in presented her painting series of Home is in the Middle of Everything in the Anglia Ruskin Gallery winterexhibition.. Merle's paintings have been sold to Japan, Australia, Finland, Estonia, Russia, Israel, Spain and England.
In 2010 Mytho the estonian publishing house released her first novel References, which talks about the lives of women who work in the homes in North England, their relationships and describes how Alzheimer is handled amongst them.
The new video will present her paintings of nature, flowers, (mostly fascinated orchids )mysterious landscapes with old castles, views of East Anglia and good emotions in sensational yet humble colours. All her work is like travelling trough the seasons, memories and dreams .
Heracles to Alexander the Great - Macedonia a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy
Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy
The Ashmolean and the University of Oxford
The Ashmolean is a University Museum and a Department of the University, which owns the collections and employs the museum staff. The Museum has very close links with the faculties, and the colleges, and museum staff undertake a great deal of University teaching and research. The Museum's Collections are also an important teaching and research resource for scholars and students from other institutions both in this country and abroad.
Undergraduate degree courses at Oxford University involving museum staff and collections include bachelors degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology; Ancient and Modern History; Classical and Ancient History; Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies; Classics; History of Art; Fine Art; Arabic, Persian and Turkish; Islamic Art and Archaeology. In many cases dissertation topics for these degrees are based on Museum collections.
Postgraduate courses using the Museum collections and staff include Masters degrees in European Archaeology; World Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology; Professional Archaeology; Greek and/or Roman History; Classical Archaeology; Byzantine Studies; Cuneiform Studies; Egyptology; History of Art; Islamic Art and Archaeology; Modern Chinese Art and Literature. Masters students often continue their studies in these areas basing doctoral theses on the museum collections, supervised by museum staff.
In addition the Ashmolean hopes soon to offer elective courses to medical students (Ancient Medicine, Ways of Seeing and Observing), as well as providing a cultural resource independently of set courses. All undergraduates of Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities receive an invitation to a special evening event in the museum in their first year.
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In the groundbreaking exhibition 'Heracles to Alexander the Great' the Ashmolean will show more than 500 extraordinary objects, most of which go on display for the first time anywhere in the world. These recent finds were discovered in the royal burial tombs and the palace at Aegae, the ancient capital of Macedon. They rewrite the history of early Greece and tell the story of the royal court and the kings and queens of Macedon, descendants of Heracles whose rule culminated in the empire of Alexander the Great. Aegae remained relatively unknown until 30 years ago when excavations uncovered the unlooted tombs of Philip II and his grandson Alexander IV. Recent work at the site by the 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has continued to unearth a startling wealth of objects -- from beautifully intricate gold jewellery, silverware and pottery, to sculpture, mosaic floors and architectural remains.
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VERGINA
The modern town of Vergina was founded in 1922 near the two small agricultural villages of Koutles (Greek: Κούτλες ; Turkish Kütles) and Barbes (Mπάρμπες) previously owned by the Turkish bey of Palatitsi and inhabited by 25 Greek families in his employ as serfs. After the Treaty of Lausanne and the eviction of the Bey landlords, the land was distributed in lots to the existing inhabitants, and to 121 other Greek families from Bulgaria and Asia Minor after population exchange agreements between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. The name for the new town was suggested by the then Metropolitan of Veria, who named it after a legendary queen of ancient Beroea (the modern Veria) who had supposedly lived in the vicinity.
Vergina is situated close to the site of ancient Aigai (or Aegae), once the royal capital of ancient Macedon, ruled by the Argead dynasty from about 650 BC onwards. The ruins of another Aigai, one of the Aeolian dodecapolis, lie 35 km S of Pergamon, by the modern Aiolis, Turkey.
The town became internationally famous in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed what he claimed was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Although the identification of Philip II as one of the kings buried there has been disputed, there is no doubt that the site is of great archaeological importance.
The larnax (gold casket) which Andronikos identified as containing the remains of Philip II has a symbol of a sun or star on its lid, and this Vergina Sun has been adopted as a symbol of Greek Macedonia. It became the subject of international controversy in 1991 when the newly independent former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia used the symbol on its flag. This outraged Greek public opinion, which saw the use of the symbol as an insult to its historical heritage and implying a territorial claim on Greece. In 1995 the Republic of Macedonia agreed to drop the use of the symbol.
The entrance to the Great Tumulus Museum at Vergina
The entrance to the Great Tumulus Museum at Vergina
Archaeologists were interested in the hills around Vergina as early as the 1850s, knowing that the site of Aigai was in the vicinity and suspecting that the hills were burial mounds. Excavations began in 1861 under the French archaeologist Leon Heuzey, sponsored by the Emperor Napoleon III. Parts of the Macedonian royal palace of Palatista were discovered. However, the excavations had to be abandoned because of the risk of malaria.
In 1937 the University of Thessaloniki resumed the excavations. More ruins of the ancient palace were found, but the excavations were abandoned on the outbreak of war with Italy in 1939. After the war the excavations were resumed and during the 1950s and 1960s the rest of the royal capital was uncovered. Manolis Andronikos became convinced that a hill called the Great Tumulus (in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα) concealed the tombs of the Macedonian Kings.
In 1977 Andronikos undertook a six-week dig at the Tumulus and found four buried chambers which he identified as hitherto undisturbed tombs. Three more were found in 1980. Excavations continued through the 1980s and 1990s. Andronikos maintained that one of the tombs was of Philip II, and another was of Alexander IV of Macedon, son of Alexander the Great. This has now become the firm view of Greek archaeologists and the Greek government, but some other archaeologists dispute this identification.
A large quantity of works of art, many in gold, were recovered from the tombs. These included the larnax with the Sun of Vergina on the lid, which Andronikos maintains contained the cremated remains of Philip II. These treasures were temporarily housed in the Thessaloniki Archeological Museum. Recently they were returned to Vergina and installed in a museum which has been built inside the Great Tumulus.
After the death of Alexander the Great, his empire was divided between a number of successors. Aigai remained the capital of the Macedonian kings. Under Antigonus II Gonatas in the 3rd century BC, the palace of Palatista was constructed at Aigai but was later partly destroyed by fire. More tombs were constructed during this period.
In 168 BC, the Roman Republic invaded, overthrew the Antigonid Dynasty and destroyed Aigai. It was later rebuilt but declined after the 1st century AD. The city was eventually abandoned.
In 1996, the archaeological importance of Vergina led UNESCO to add it to its list of World Heritage Sites.
The Ellas Dancers of Chicago- Moline Thracian Set 1 of 2
The Ellas Dancers of Chicago performing Thracian dances
at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church. This was taped on 6/13/09 in Moline, Illinois USA.
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