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SUMMARY:Pretty in Pink: A Portrait of Queen Olga of Greece at the Benaki Mu
	seum by George Manginis
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DESCRIPTION:Lecture by\n\nGeorge Manginis\nAcademic Director\nBenaki Museum
	 in Athens\n\nSaturday\, January 11\, 2025\n4:00 p.m.\n314 Royce Hall\, UC
	LA Campus\nReception to follow\n\nConversation following the lecture with 
	Sharon Gerstel\, Director\, UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for th
	e Study of Hellenic Culture.\n\nThis lecture is free but advanced RSVPs ar
	e requested.\n\nOn the third floor of the Benaki Museum in central Athens 
	hangs a portrait of Queen Olga\, the consort of Greece’s second king\, pai
	nted a few years after her wedding to George I. In March 2021\, the portra
	it\, attributed to an unknown artist\, was included in the Museum’s annive
	rsary exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution. Thi
	s lecture will unfold the story of this radiant but enigmatic painting\, f
	rom its creation to its bequest to the Museum\, offering surprising insigh
	ts into 19th– and 20th– century Greek and European history.\n\nGeorge Mang
	inis is the Academic Director of the Benaki Museum in Athens. He has taugh
	t and researched Cypriot prehistory\, Islamic art and architecture\, Sinai
	 studies\, Chinese ceramics\, European decorative arts and the Greek and A
	rmenian diasporas. In 2016 he published Mount Sinai: A History of Travelle
	rs and Pilgrims and China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Ch
	inese Ceramics\, followed by Ceramics from Korea at the Benaki Museum: The
	 George Eumorfopoulos Collection and Director’s Choice: Benaki Museum in 2
	021\, and Imperial China in 2023.\n\nThis event is held under the auspices
	 of the Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles and made possible thank
	s to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).\n\nGefyra (Bridge) is a collab
	orative program established by the UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellen
	ic Culture and the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser Univers
	ity with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Gefyra’s miss
	ion is to connect students\, faculty\, and communities along the West Coas
	t of North America with Greek scholars\, artists\, and other creators\, so
	 that they can together explore expansive and imaginative approaches to Gr
	eek culture and knowledge production. The program additionally supports ac
	ademic conferences and cultural projects that bridge the West Coast and Gr
	eece.\n\nEvent Website: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/george-manginis/\n
	\nEvent Website: https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/george-manginis/\n\nSourc
	e: https://community.ucla.edu/event/02538dfb-15e6-4193-a930-965eb1113648
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