Presentation and Workshop at the Benaki Museum in Athens

Following the RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) documentation of three paintings by the famous Cretan artist Domenikos Theotocopoulos known as El Greco in Nicosia (January 2013) STARC’s Nikolas Bakirtzis and Ropertos Georgiou were invited to present the results in Athens.

The Benaki Museum, owner of one of the paintings, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ (dated 1565-67), organized a special workshop (March 27) featuring the work of CyI’s Imaging Center for Archaelogy and Cultural Heritage (ICACH) with the participation of Museum curators, photographers, conservators and art historians.

Workshop participants recognized the critical value of ICACH’s work in the visual analysis of El Greco’s art and urged the preparation of a systematic project for the documentation of all early El Greco paintings, specifically his work before his 1577 arrival in Spain. CyI researchers were invited to make immediate plans to photograph all Le Greco works in Greece (Athens and Crete) and prepare a digital corpus of RTI images that will be included in the events for 2014, which has been designated as international ‘El Greco Year’.

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