2025-26

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with a period in the history art that is situated in a particular time and place.  It also aims to acquaint them with the basic concepts and principles of art during the Baroque, with technical developments and with the relationship of Baroque art to history.

The first half of the course examines in summary form the education of Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire and the nature of the education provided for them. Particular emphasis is laid upon the changes wrought by the Greek Enlightenment on education, resulting in the move from the 'Greek school' of the Church to the Greek school of the ethnos. The second part of the course offers an analysis of the progress of education from the foundation of the independent Greek nation-state to the present.