49 Albanian icons exhibited in French museum

At the Museum of Fine Arts in Chambéry, France, an exhibition of 49 icons selected from the collection of the National Museum of Medieval Art will open on June 13.

These are carefully selected works, from the 14th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

These works best present the development of Albanian iconography, the first evidence of figurative art in Albania, which carries history.

The French public will be introduced to the art of Albanian iconography, which dates from different periods and places in Albania, where Byzantine art had a greater development and embraced all currents and styles of Byzantine painting and Western influences.

In addition to icons from the Byzantine period, some of the works also belong to the great names of post-Byzantine Albanian painting, such as Onufri, Kostandin the Hieromonk, Kostandin Shpataraku, the Zografi brothers, Vangjel Zengo with his painter daughters, and many others. 

Alongside the exhibition, a prestigious catalogue will also be published, in which important names in Albanian and French Byzantine art will shed light on the iconography, development of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art over the centuries in Albania, making it internationally known and ranking it alongside European countries with a long artistic history. /CNA

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