Greek painters exhibition AT Topkapı Palace looks to New horizons
LATIFA AKAY, İSTANBUL 24/5/2011 Monday marked an encouraging day for Turkish-Greek relations with the opening of two significant İstanbul-based exhibitions, demonstrating a cooperation between the ministries of the two countries on a scale previously unseen in the higher arts sphere. With a morning press conference having been held in the tranquil setting of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) in Emirgan for the opening of the “Across — the Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium B.C.” exhibition, which displays interactions between western Anatolian and Greek civilizations dating back to the third millennium B.C., late afternoon marked the much-anticipated inauguration of the painting and iconography exhibition “Greek Painters of İstanbul at the Topkapı Palace,” held at the recently renovated Imperial Stables of the Topkapı Palace Museum. Organized under the auspices of Turkish Minister of Culture Ertuğrul Günay and Patriarch Bartholomew, the exhibition, which will run until June 30, is based on curator Mayda Saris’ celebrated book “İstanbullu Rum Ressamlar/Greek Painters of İstanbul,” which takes an extensive look at Greek painters (Ottoman subjects) who were born or raised in İstanbul, bringing together carefully selected works from Greek Orthodox churches and private collections as well as the collections of Topkapı Palace, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Halki Theological School.
LATIFA AKAY, İSTANBUL 24/5/2011 Monday marked an encouraging day for Turkish-Greek relations with the opening of two significant İstanbul-based exhibitions, demonstrating a cooperation between the ministries of the two countries on a scale previously unseen in the higher arts sphere. With a morning press conference having been held in the tranquil setting of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) in Emirgan for the opening of the “Across — the Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium B.C.” exhibition, which displays interactions between western Anatolian and Greek civilizations dating back to the third millennium B.C., late afternoon marked the much-anticipated inauguration of the painting and iconography exhibition “Greek Painters of İstanbul at the Topkapı Palace,” held at the recently renovated Imperial Stables of the Topkapı Palace Museum. Organized under the auspices of Turkish Minister of Culture Ertuğrul Günay and Patriarch Bartholomew, the exhibition, which will run until June 30, is based on curator Mayda Saris’ celebrated book “İstanbullu Rum Ressamlar/Greek Painters of İstanbul,” which takes an extensive look at Greek painters (Ottoman subjects) who were born or raised in İstanbul, bringing together carefully selected works from Greek Orthodox churches and private collections as well as the collections of Topkapı Palace, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and Halki Theological School.
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Greek painters exhibition AT Topkapı Palace looks to New horizons
