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Professor Vrasidas Karalis, from the University of Sydney. Photo: Supplied
23 February 2021 12:30pm
The significance of the Greek Revolution of 1821 has never been questioned and all historiographical tradition persistently explores the realities around its impact of modern Greek nationhood.
Recently a debate has erupted amongst historians about the contribution of the Revolution to the creation of the Greek state and nation.
As a part of the 2021 Greek History and Culture Seminars series, offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne, Professor Vrasidas Karalis from the University of Sydney will present an online lecture titled “Did the Greek Revolution of 1821 really happen? Myths, counter-myths and historical knowledge’, on Thursday 4 March 2021 (7.00pm).
Event description
Join us in the Nelson Meers Auditorium, Chau Chak Wing Museum for a lecture by Professor Vrasidas Karalis. About this Event
This lecture examines the various ways through which the 1821 Greek Revolution re-animated romanticism especially in France and Germany. Special emphasis is given on the French painter Eugene Delacroix and his famous paintings illustrating the central themes of catastrophe and horror that dominated European art during the early 19th century mixed with revolutionary hope and projects of liberation and emancipation. The lecture analyses the revolutionary, aesthetic and formal characteristics of Delacroix’s The Massacre of Chios (1824) and Greece dying in the Ruins of Missolongi (1826), two of the most emblematic paintings of the European romantic movement.