Paintings / Sculptures
Sculpture and Painting Collection

The Museum houses a large number of sculptures and paintings, including sculptures by Loukia, Nikolaos, and Eleni Georgantis, funerary sculptures, works by Skyrian painters, as well as the picture gallery of Manos Faltaits.

Funerary sculpture 

This collection includes Muslim and Jewish hand-carved marble headstones, brought in from various places in Greece. It comprises a significant collection of this type of object.

Sculptures by Loukia, Nikolaos, and Eleni Georganti 

The museum also houses a rich collection of works by the famous 20th-century Greek sculptors, Loukia Georganti, also known as the "Madame Tussauds of Greece", her father Nicholas, and mother Eleni. They include busts and other sculpture pieces modeled after personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection was donated to the museum by Giorgos Economopoulos, Loukia Georganti’s husband.

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Manos Faltaits’ Picture Gallery 

Manos Faltaits’ painting workshop is set up in an especially designed area of the museum, where visitors can see the way he created his art, and, also, hundreds of his small and larger works from 1980 until he died in 2012. His painting, as he describes it, has a strong element of soul-seeing and through his work, he opened up a new path in artistic creation, by exposing, literally, the souls of persons, landscapes, and situations.

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Skyrian Picture Gallery 

From the very beginning, the Museum housed paintings and sketches of painters who were associated with Skyros or inspired by it. Since the establishment of the Museum sketches were donated by Angeliki Hatzimichali and Athena Tarsouli, as well as painters whose exhibitions on Skyros were organized by Manos Faltaits, such as Giannis Konidaris, Soula Koumpi, Skyrian Kostas Alexiou, Yannis Plakotaris, Lazarou. Braesa and Alexandridou have also donated works to the Museum.  

Works by Yiannis Giamalis and Kostas Plakotaris, are also exhibited in the picture gallery. The Museum houses the drawings and paintings archive of Skyrian master builder, woodcarver, and folk painter Giannoulis Babousis, donated by him in 1974. More recently, in 2012, the great contemporary sketch artist and designer Elli Solomonidou donated 32 of her Skyrian sketches during a special ceremony.

 

Skyriani pinakothiki

Skyriani pinakothiki

 

Engravings and maps 

A large number of engravings and maps are also housed in the museum's collections, concerning various Greek sites, monuments of Hellenism, and historical figures.

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