Museum of Russian Icons Spring 2018 Newsletter MuseumRussianIcons Spring NL

NEWS
from the
MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS
Spring 2018
Icons of the Hellenic World
The Tiliakos Collection
On View June 22 - October 21, 2018
I
cons of the Hellenic World will be the first major
exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons that
focuses exclusively on Greek and Byzantine
iconography. The exhibit will illustrate the links
and the continuity of Greek art and culture from
Late Antiquity, through Byzantium, to the present.
Though icons are considered works of art, they are
also understood to be cultural relics. As they are
handed down through generations, icons provide
testimonies of places and peoples long gone.
The exhibit is largely comprised of icons created
after the Fall of Constantinople, but will also feature
some from the Byzantine period. The earliest object
in the exhibition is a rare “Portrait of Man” from
Fayum, Egypt, painted in the encaustic technique,
a wax painting method which the Greeks learned
from the Egyptians. There are also examples of
icons and objects from the Cretan School, as well
as pieces from the Greek Islands of the Aegean Sea,
and of the so-called Ionian School. The School of
the Ionian Islands produced some famous and
talented artists who provided the direct link from
the art of Byzantium to modern Greece.
The collection belongs to Emmanuel Tiliakos, who was
born in Athens, Greece. He studied engineering and
worked at the Hellenic Shipyards and Greek Atomic
Energy Commission before being awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship to study at Yale University, where he
received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1967.
Tiliakos has been a collector and independent art
dealer in Boston and New York since 1980, specializing
in the arts of the Ancient Near East, and Medieval and
Renaissance Art. He is considered a leading expert
in the field of Greek
icons.
An opening reception
will be held on
Thursday evening June
21, from 6:00-8:00pm.
Members are free,
nonmembers $15. Call
the Museum to reserve
your spot. 978.598.5000
x121 by Monday,
June 18.
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