A Guide to the Museum of Islamic Art

Athens, 2006. In Engish. Soft cover, 24x20 cm, 200 pp., 280 color plates; net weight 650 gr. ISBN: 978-960-8347-36-6.

Greece' s geographic position has been a crucial factor in determining the major role played by hellenism throughout a historical period extending from remotest antiquity to the expiration of the Byzantine era. It occupies an exceptionally advantageous location on the map, at a point where Europe meets Asia and where the North greets the southern winds from Africa. This no doubt explains Greece' s sense of familiarity with its neighbours, and especially its conspicuous acceptance of the racial and cultural individualities of the other. Independently of the friendly or hostile relations which developed from time to time, and of sometimes radical differences of social conviction and religious belief, the channels of communication never became obstructed. Nor did the position change during the post-Byzantine era of foreign occupation and in the years after the independence of the modern Greek state, in any place where diaspora hellenism was welcomed and able to flourish.[...] The publication presents works of Islamic Art that are housed in the Benaki Museum - Museum of Islamic Art, in the Kerameikos area. It is a guide that can accompany visitors round the museum halls and inform them about the objects on display, which cover eleven centuries (from the 8th to the 19th century) and come from all the regions where Islamic culture flourished. The publication also includes extensive introductory notes on Islamic Art as well as Antonis Benakis, who gathered this collection, as well as the Ancient Greek finds that came to light when excavating the foundations of the building.

La publicacion presenta las obras de arte islamico acogidas en el Museo de Arte Islamico del Museo Benaki, en la zona del Ceramico (Keramikos). Es la guia que puede acompanar al visitante por las salas del museo e informarle sobre las piezas alli expuestas, que cubren un periodo de tiempo de once siglos (ss. VIII-XIX) y proceden de todas las regiones donde se ha desarrollado la civilizacion islamica. En la publicacion, asimismo, se incluyen extensas notas introductorias sobre el arte islamico y el creador de la coleccion, Antonis Benakis, asi como sobre los hallazgos arqueologicos sacados a la luz durante la excavacion de los cimientos del edificio.

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