National Gallery Nafplion Annex
Neoclassical gallery of nineteenth-century paintings of the Greek War of Independence.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the National Gallery annex in Nafplio follows Theodoros Vryzakis, a boy from Thebes whose father was hanged in the first year of the Greek War of Independence. It traces his road from an orphanage on Aegina to the art schools of Munich, and the war he kept painting from abroad. Stand in front of his canvas from eighteen fifty-eight to listen.
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