The Benaki Museum
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Relief from the exterior ornamentation of a church at Amaseia in the Pontos. Materials: stone, Period: Middle Byzantine, circa: (1197-1207). Showing the military saints Dimitrios and Theodoros slaying the Bulgarian tsar Skyloyannis or Kaloyannis. Dimensions: 0.33×0.44×0.05 m. Traces of red pigment are visible.
The Benaki Museum of Greek Culture is housed in one of the most beautiful neoclassical-style buildings in Athens, near the National Garden and the Hellenic Parliament. It was converted into a museum in order to shelter the collections of Antonis Benakis and was donated to the Greek nation by himself and his three sisters, Alexandra, Penelope and Argine. Following its most recent refurbishment (1989–2000), the building houses a unique exhibition on Greek culture arranged diachronically from prehistory to the 20th century.
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