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The past twenty years have been a new and exceptionally creative era for Byzantine studies and Byzantine museums in Greece. New Byzantine museums have been established, presenting finds from long-term systematic archaeological excavations by the Archaeological Service of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and older museums have redesigned the exhibits of their collections. New interpretative methods, innovative approaches, and the use of advanced technologies have created a contemporary museum environment that is both attractive and accessible to the wider public.
Interest in Byzantine civilization has been further strengthened by the flourishing of Byzantine studies in major European and American universities, and has manifested itself over the past twenty years in the presentation of important exhibitions on Byzantium both in Greece and abroad.
Within this climate of creativity, new pursuits, and extroversion, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Benaki Museum is offering its own contribution to international exhibition activity with the traveling exhibition "Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections". The exhibition, to be shown in two leading U.S. museums, presents aspects of Byzantine civilization through featured works of high historical and artistic value in addition to recent excavation finds from public, private, and ecclesiastical collections.
The exhibition is accompanied by its catalog and the present companion study "Heaven and Earth: Cities and Countryside in Byzantine Greece", in which prominent Greek and foreign scholars contribute to the enrichment of contemporary research on Byzantium, providing the international scientific community as well as the wider public with stimuli for new scholarly interpretations and research.
Two of the exhibition's main goals are to familiarize visitors with Byzantine civilization, which is an integral part of Greece's cultural heritage, and to highlight the important role played by the Greek region within the broader context of the Byzantine Empire. Above and beyond this, however, we believe that this multifaceted exhibition will form another link in the chain of acquaintance, friendship, and cooperation between the Greek and American peoples, and further the climate of dialogue and exchange of ideas at the international level.
I wish to congratulate and extend my thanks to all the exhibition's contributors, both Americans and Greeks, who collaborated harmoniously and with noteworthy zeal toward its realization and exceptional attractive and scholarly presentation. (From the publisher)
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FOREWORDS
PANOS PANAGIOTOPOULOS, Minister of Culture and Sports
LINA MENDONI, General Secretary, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
INTRODUCTION
MARIA ANDREADAKI-VLAZAKI, Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
AIMILIA YEROULANOU, Art Historian, President of the Board of Trustees, Benaki Museum
1. BYZANTIUM AND HELLAS. SOME LESSER KNOWN ASPECTS OF THE HELLADIC CONNECTION (8th-12th CENTURIES) - ILIAS ANAGNOSTAKIS, Senior Researcher, Institute of Historical Research/Department of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
2. RURAL GREECE IN THE BYZANTINE PERIOD IN LIGHT OF NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE -
EUGENIA GEROUSI, Director of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
3. BYZANTINE CITIES IN GREECE - CHARALAMBOS BOURAS, Professor Emeritus, National Technical University, Athens
-Thessalonike - ANASTASIA TOURTA, Honorary Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessalonike, and Director of the European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments
-Philippi - EUTYCHIA KOURKOUTIDOU-NlKOLAIDOU, Honorary Director of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessalonike, and Honorary Director of the European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments
-Berroia - ANTONIS PETKOS, Honorary Director of the llth Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Berroia
-Kastoria. Art, Patronage, and Society - EUGENIA DRAKOPOULOU, Senior Researcher, Institute of Historical Research/Department of Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
-Arta - BARBARA PAPADOPOULOU, Director of the 8th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Ioannina
-Nikopolis - EUGENIA CHALKIA, Honorary Director of the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
-"Christian" or Thessalian Thebes: The port city of Late Antique Thessaly - OLGA KARACIORGOU, Assistant Researcher, Academy of Athens, Research Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art
-Byzantine Athens, 330-1453 - CHARALAMBOS BOURAS, Professor Emeritus, National Technical University, Athens
-Thebes - CHARIKLEIA KOILAKOU, Honorary Director of the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Athens
-Corinth - DEMETRIOS ATHANASOULIS, Director of the 25th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Corinth
-Argos from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries - CATHERINE ABADIE-REYNAL, Professor, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2
-Argos from the Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries - ANASTASIA VASSILIOU, Curator of the 25th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Corinth
-Mistra. A Fortified Late Byzantine Settlement - SOPHIA KALOPISSI-VERTI, Professor Emerita, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens
-The City of Rhodes - MARIA MICHAELIDOU, Director of the 4th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Rhodes
-Herakleion in Crete - MICHALIS ANDRIANAKIS, Honorary Director of the 28th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Chania
4. THE WORLD OF BYZANTIUM IN GREEK PUBLIC MUSEUMS: OLD AND NEW APPROACHES - SUSANNA CHOULIA-KAPELONI, Director for Documentation and the Protection of Cultural Goods, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports