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25 Mar, 28 tweets, 14 min read
Greek revolution inspired many artists, Greeks, Europeans and others. This thread will show some of their art

#GreekIndependenceDay #GreekRevolution #Greece1821 #Greece200years

Lets start with a Greek one, Theodoros Vryzakis and his painting The Grateful Hellas
Left: The Legend of Hagia Lavra
Right: The Camp of Georgios Karaiskakis
Left:The Sortie Of Messolonghi
Right: The Guard
Left: The Reception of Lord Byron at Messolonghi
Right: The Consolation
Ludovico Lipparini

Left: The death of Markos Botsaris
Right: The death of Lambros Tzavelas
Left: Lord Byron's oath at the tomb of Botsaris
Right: Greek Warrior
Eugene Delacroix

Left: The Massacre at Chios
Right: Greece at the Ruins of Messologhi
Left: The Battle of Giaour and Hassan
Right: Botsaris surprises the turkish camp
Left: François-Emile de Lansac, The sacrifice of the mother

Right: Louis Dupré, Salona
Left: Louis Dupre, Demetrius Mavromichalis
Right: The Greek (Andreas Londos)
Ary Scheffer

Left: The_Souliot Women
Right: Young Greek Defending his Wounded Father
Peter von Hess

Left: Hanging of Patriarch Gregory
Botsaris dying in Karpenisi
Left: Admiral Andrea Miaoulis on Board Kos
Right: Bouboulina
Left: François-Auguste Vinson, Samothrace Massacre

Right: Francesco de Vivo Donato, The death of Tzavellas
Left: Xydacobe, Massacre of Chios
Right: Tomas Phillips, Lord Byron
Left: Konstantinos Volanakis, The burning of the Ottoman frigate at Eressos by Dimitrios Papanikolis

Right: Nikiforos Lytras, The burning of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris
Left: Georgios Miniatis, Souliotisses

Right: Marsigli Filippo, The death of Markos Botsaris during the Battle of Karpenisi
Left: Ambroise Louis Garneray , The Naval Battle of Navarino

Right: Peter von Hess, Commander Kephalas plants the flag of Liberty upon the walls of Tripolizza (Siege of Tripolitsa)
Left: Henri Decaisne, Failed Operation

Right:Nicolas Louis Francois Gosse, The battle of the Acropolis
Left: Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess, Greeks Fighting Among Ancient Ruins

Right: F.P. Stephanoff, The farewell of a Warrior
Ivan Aivazovsky

Left: Battle of Navarino

Right: The burning of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris
Left: BERARD, J - Battle Scene

Right: Carl Wilhelm von Heideck, Palicars in front of the Tempel at Corinth
Left: Denis Dighton, Field Officer. The Duke of York's Greek Light Infantry

Right: Christian Johann Georg Perlberg, Palicars fighting for Freedom
Christian Johann Georg Perlberg

Left: Battle scene from the Greek War of Independence

Right: Scene from the Hellenic Revolution
Left: Paul Joanovitch, Greek guard

Right: Eugene Delacroix, Two Souliotes by the sea
Left: Haralambos Pahis, Messologhi

Right: Carl Haag, Greek Warrior
Left: Louis Benjamin Marie Devouges, The Oath of the Messolonghians

Right: Louis Joseph Toussaint Rossignon The last communion of the Messolonghians
Left: Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de NEUVILLE, Courage des femmes Souliotes

Right: Henri Leopold Levy , Scene from Greek Revolution

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24 Mar
Massacre of Chios 1822

Victor Hugo poem "L' enfant"
The Child

The Turks have been here. All is bleak, in ruin.
Chios, isle of wines, is now a darkened reef
Chios, cradled by green branches,
Chios, where curling waves mirror soft hills, forests, palaces, and, on certain nights⬇️
dancing choirs of young girls

All is desert. But no, near a blackened wall sits a Greek child, a blue-eyed boy, alone and bending his head in shame.

For safety, for support, he has but a
single wrecked hawthorn bush, forgotten like him in this forgotten, wasted corner.
Oh poor child, barefoot on these sharp-edged rocks!

Oh to stop the crying of your blue eyes, blue like the sky and like the sea, so that in their shine the light of laughter and joy might evaporate this storm of tears;

young boy, to lift up your blond head,
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