The early landscape painters drew from the rich mine of romantic travel landscape painting, which developed quite remarkably from the second half of the 18th to the early 19th century.
The romantic painter did not depict antiquity the way the neoclassical artist did. He would stand in reverie before the ancient ruins, the melancholy remains of a “golden age”, irrevocably lost. Greece as seen by the Romantics is suspended in a transcendent space, where immobile historical time rules.
Angelos Giallinas (1857 - 1939), Thision and the Acropolis, ca 1895
Georgios Margaritis (1814 - 1884), View of the Acropolis, ca 1845
Thomas Voutsinas (1859 - (?)), Observatory
Emilios Prossalentis (1859 - 1926), The Acropolis, 1897
TEXT & PAINTINGS : National Gallery of Athens
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