Tag Archives: National Gallery

A 50-year-old Greek painter/decorator was sentenced to a 6-year suspended prison sentence on Friday for stealing three artworks from the National Gallery in Athens ten years ago. Having remained elusive for years but eventually arrested in 2021, the man had then confessed he was the perpetrator of the theft of …

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Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the long standing director of the National Gallery in Athens, passed away in hospital on Monday at the age of 83. Having served at this post for 30 years, she was called the “Iron Lady” of the Greek Arts. Two days ago, she was reportedly submitted to a …

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Greece’s newly refurbished National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens is ready to welcome visitors when epidemiological data allows for the opening of all museums, the Greek Culture Ministry said in a statement issued on Friday. The emblematic works for the expansion and renovation of the building “impressed visitors and spectators …

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Three paintings, one by art master Pablo Picasso, another by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and a sketch by Italian artist Guglielmo Caccia (“Moncalvo”) were stolen from Greece’s National Gallery in downtown Athens in the early morning hours of Monday, in what Greek media describe as the “robbery of the century”. The …

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