Byzantine and Christian Museum

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Byzantine and Christian Museum
Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο

Evangelismos station
Website	www.byzantinemuseum.gr

The Byzantine and Christian Museum (Greek: Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο) is situated at

, the museum reopened to the public after an extensive renovation and the addition of another wing.

Visitor information

The gallery is situated on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue 22, down the street from the

.

Gallery

Early marble templon Late Roman statuette of the Good shepherd (4th century), from Corinth Late Roman statuette of Orpheus (4th century), from Aegina Marble slabs Marble slab, 11th century Byzantine ceramic ware (9th through 13th century) Double-sided icon with Saint George (front), from Kastoria Fragments of a Gothic arcosolium (Crusaders art) Icon of Archangel Michael (14th century) Icon of Saint Catherine, from Veria (14th century) Icon of Saint Catherine (17th century) Limestone panel with the figure of St John the Baptist, from Zakynthos (17th century) Frescoed iconostasis from Evrytania (17th century)

See also

• Byzantine Art
• List of museums in Greece

References

Bibliography

• Hatzidakis, Manolis (1987). Έλληνες Ζωγράφοι μετά την Άλωση (1450-1830). Τόμος 1: Αβέρκιος - Ιωσήφ [Greek Painters after the Fall of Constantinople (1450-1830). Volume 1: Averkios - Iosif]. Athens: Center for Modern Greek Studies, National Research Foundation.
  ISBN 960-7916-01-8
  .

• Hatzidakis, Manolis; Drakopoulou, Evgenia (1997). Έλληνες Ζωγράφοι μετά την Άλωση (1450-1830). Τόμος 2: Καβαλλάρος - Ψαθόπουλος [Greek Painters after the Fall of Constantinople (1450-1830). Volume 2: Kavallaros - Psathopoulos]. Athens: Center for Modern Greek Studies, National Research Foundation.
  ISBN 960-7916-00-X
  .

• Drakopoulou, Evgenia (2010). Έλληνες Ζωγράφοι μετά την Άλωση (1450–1830). Τόμος 3: Αβέρκιος - Ιωσήφ [Greek Painters after the Fall of Constantinople (1450–1830). Volume 3: Averkios - Joseph]. Athens, Greece: Center for Modern Greek Studies, National Research Foundation.
  ISBN 978-960-7916-94-5
  .

• Acheimastou Potamianou, Myrtalē (1998). Icons of the Byzantine Museum of Athens. Athens, Greece: Ministry of Culture.
  ISBN 9789602149119
  .

External links

Media related to Byzantine and Christian Museum (Athens) at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism