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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-02-26
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[01] PM invited by Obama and Merkel
[02] El Greco masterpiece in Thessaloniki
[01] PM invited by Obama and Merkel
Prime Minister George Papandreou will visit Berlin on March 5 following
an invitation by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it was announced on
Friday.
Papandreou also received an invitation from US President Barack Obama
on Thursday to visit Washington on March 9. Government spokesman George
Petalotis said in Thursday that Prime Minister George Papandreou will
be meeting US President Barack Obama in March. Petalotis said that the
US president invited the Greek prime minister to visit the US on March
9, stressing that the exact date will be fixed through diplomatic
channels.
"In the very difficult conjuncture that we are in, such an inernational
contact is very important," the spokesman added.
[02] El Greco masterpiece in Thessaloniki
One of the later masterpieces painted by Greek artist Domenicus
Theotokopoulos - a Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect
who was better known by the nickname El Greco - is to be exhibited at
the Teloglion Foundation of Arts at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki for two months after March 8.
The painting is a 57 x 79.3 cm oil on canvas of the "Coronation of the
Virgin" and dates to what is considered the artist's mature creative
period (1603-1605). El Greco painted this as a study for a similar
composition commissioned for a chapel in a hospital near Toledo
dedicated to the Virgin.
It was acquired by the 'Alexandros S. Onassis' Foundation in 2008 and
is temporarily housed in the National Gallery until the completion of
the foundation's 'Home of Arts and Letters' on Syngrou Avenue, where it
will eventually be placed on display on a permanent basis, alongside
the other works in the Onassis Foundation collection.
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