The Millennia Tour: Santorini Through the Ages

By John Leonard & Giorgos Tsiros | August 2nd, 2019

Left to right: 1.A well-to-do lady dressed in Minoan-style clothing, wearing make-up and jewelry, perhaps in attendance at a public or religious ceremony. Room 2, House of the Ladies, Akrotiri (Museum of Prehistoric Thera). 2.Ceramic figurine of a woman, with well-preserved painted details; possibly a mourner rending her hair, a typical gesture of grief; 7th c. BC, Ancient Thera (Archaeological Museum of Thera). 3.A Santorinian woman, circa 1825. A detail from a colored lithograph (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library). 4.Vicky Nomikou, member of a prominent Santorini family, on the porch of the Langadas Mansion, with Pyrgos in the background (1954).


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