National Gallery Nafplio - "Traces of Presence", April 5th 2025 to January 15th 2026

The preservation of the memory of the Revolution from the first years of the foundation of the Greek state is the main concern of the protagonists of the Greek Revolution.
13 brass portraits of the fighters of 1821, belonging to the collection of the National Historical Museum, are presented in the section "Memory of the Struggle" of the permanent collection of the annex, on the theme "The Greek Struggle for Independence -1821".
These portraits were copied in brass in the last decade of the 20th century, from the plaster casts of the fighters, which were donated to the Historical Ethnological Society of Greece in 1886, by the "School of Arts".
The concern to preserve the human existence and the image of the historical figures of Greek independence, together with their history and form, constitute a memorial to the struggle of 1821 and are considered valuable elements of historical memory.

Curator of exhibition
Mrs. Lambrini Karakourti, curator of the National Gallery, Nafplio Annex

Place
National Gallery, Annex of Nafplio - Alexandros Soutsos Museum
23, Sidiras Merarchias str. Nafplio, Τ. +30 27520 -21915 & -21935

Admission
Free

Inauguration ceremony
Saturday, April 5th 2025, at 20:00

Duration of exhibition
April 5th 2025, until January 15th 2026

Did you know that?
Below, see the brass mask of Petrobeis Mavromichalis [1848 -School of Fine Arts, 1990-91 (Copy), EIM 9378/9] and the brass mask of Theodoros Kolokotronis on the poster (4.02.1843) -School of Fine Arts, 1990-91 (Copy), EIM 9378/15.The works of the permanent collection of the Annex come from the collections of the National Gallery and the E. Koutlidis Foundation, as well as from the collections of the National Historical Museum (NHM), the Vasilis and Eliza Goulandris Foundation (VEGF), the Collection of the Antonios E. Komninos Foundation, and the Collection of Sotiris Felios, including works by Yiannis Psychopedis.