The buildings of the Academy of Athens, the National and Capodistrian University of Athens and, of course, the National Library, bind together to form the so-called “Athens Neoclassical Trilogy”.
(Photos by Michael Tziotis)
National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Frontal View |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: View of Back, on Academias Street
Photo taken from the entrance of the Theatrical Museum, next to the Cultural Center of Athens |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Koraes Statue
To the right of the Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Koraes Statue (Closeup)
To the right of the Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Capodistrias Statue
To the left of the Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Entrance Pediment |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Main Entrance Columns and Pediment |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Entrance Detail |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Statue of Rigas Fereos
It is located to the building's right, to the left as we face it. Rigas was one of those who paved the way to the Greek Revolution against the Turkish rule in 1821. He was a poet, writer, playwright. politician, political philisopher, translator of science books and an editor, a most prominent figure in the Age of Enlightenment. He was arrested by the Austrian authorities in Vienna and handed over to the Turkish police in Belgrade by whom, together with another seven of his comrades, after one and a half month of torture, in June 1798, were strangled and their bodies thrown in the river Danube. The tiny street northwest of the University building, that is the one next to Rigas' statue, is named after him in his honor. |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Statue of Rigas Fereos (Medium Closeup) |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Statue of Patriarch Gregorios the 5th
The statue is to the building's left. Gregorios the 5th, Patriarch in Constantinople, was a martyr of the Greek nation, born in Dimitsana. He was tortured and hanged to death by the Turkish mob in Constantinople, when the news for the outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 reached the city. The tiny street to the building's left, i.e. the one separating the buildings of the Academy and the University, is named after the martyr's name. |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Statue of Patriarch Gregorios the 5th (Medium Closeup) |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Entrance Frescoes
The entrance is adorned with a series of wall frescoes that form a Greek Π. This Π must be imagined as having two very short 'legs' and a very long horizontal part with the Main Entrance fresco in the middle. This is a photo of the right short leg. |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Main Entrance Fresco over the Gate |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: The Entrance Frescoes
This is a photo of the left short leg. |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
First part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
Second part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
Third part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
Fourth part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
Fifth part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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National and Capodistrian University of Athens: Façade Wall Fresco
Sixth and last part of the drawing to the right of the fresco over the Main Entrance |
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