Publications

The author, Dr. Iris Panayotopoulou, Architect-Town Planner, with respect and love for the island, describes in detail the evolution of Hydra Town, from a mountain enclosed village to a proud state open to the sea and finally to a historic settlement. Her many years of study, solidly documented, presents the natural landscape and its impact on the settlers, the way it spread from the mountain to the beach, recognizes and relates families and homes and investigates the urban structure of the settlement from ancient times to the present. Finally, it deals with the location, identification and connection of each building with the history of the families that inhabited it, citing a number of photographs, old and new. The rich documentation from the archives of IAMY, GAK, EIM, ELIA and not only, makes this project a “source” for future studies that will surely emerge.

The publication won the Academy of Athens Award (2024).

With this work, Gisis Papageorgiou brought the lighthouse to the public sphere not only as an image but also as a story. His book is recording all the stone lighthouses of Greece with their history, while all the lighthouses are illustrated by the author with drawings, sketches and watercolors that make this effort unique. The first 2 editions of the book were a well-known bibliographic success and have been sold out for years. This new third edition is also accepted with enthusiasm by the reading public, both for its historical usefulness and for its artistic elegance.

In this two-volume work, the author records the adventure of the Greek literature throughout its two great paths: from its birth to the violent suspension of its course with the Fall of Constantinople and from its rebirth, with the spread of typography, to this day. It includes biographical notes on all the writers who lived from the time of Homer until the Fall, who either created works in Greek that survived even in excerpts, or, although nothing was saved from their own works, they themselves are mentioned by name in rescued works by other authors. Also included are the most important editions of these works up to the beginning of the 20th century.

A total of approximately 3,200 authors, 4,000 publications and 350 scholars who contributed to these publications are mentioned and commented on. Their works and authors are classified into cognitive objects and five historical periods: the heroic era, the classical years, the Hellenistic era, the Greco-Roman period and Byzantium. Along the margins of the text are the title pages of about 3,500 editions, sorted chronologically.

The catalogue presents the works of the painter Valias Semertzidis (1911-1983) which are permanently exhibited at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation. Art historian Nikos Hatzinikolaou selected and edited the texts. Includes introductions by Panos Laskaridis, President of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and by the Semertzidis family. Other authors are Christos Alexiou, Themistoklis D. Tsatsou, Nikos Hatzinikolaou. It also includes  excerpts from the conversations of Valias Semertzidis with Christos Alexiou and a timeline of the painter’s life by Konstantinos Papachristos.

This volume brings together, edited and enriched, the original scientific presentations of the colloquium “One book, six centuries of history. Editions from the dawn of printing in the libraries of Athens. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Dennis E. Rhodes (1923-2020), pioneer of the study of incunabula in Greece. It includes articles by Cristina Dondi, Dennis E. Rhodes, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Nicolas J. Barker, Giannis Kokkonas, Agamemnon Tselikas, Astrid Balsem, David Speranzi. Representing the libraries of Athens, the authors are: Elli Droulia (Library of the Greek Parliament), Leonora Navari and Maria Giouroukou (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation), Athena Zoupanti, Maria Xenariou, Mirka Palioura and Konstantinos I. Stefanis (Finopoulos Collection, Benaki Museum), Irini Solomonidi (Gennadius Library), Nikolas Sarris, George Stavratis, Christina Tsaroucha, Marilia Apostolaki, Katerina Lygnou (National Library of Greece), Venetia Hatzopoulou (IPA / MIET), Aggeliki Papadopoulou, Kleopatra Kyrtata and Vera Andriopoulou (Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation).

In order to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation published this volume in honour of the great printer. The book, which is available in 3 languages, focuses on the Greek collaborators of Aldus, such as Arsenios Apostolis and Marcus Musurus, who accompanied him in his first steps in printing and publishing. This edition accompanies the Laskaridis Foundation exhibition “The Greek editions of Aldus Manutius and his Greek collaborators (c. 1495-1515)”, hosted by the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice (17 September-24 October 2016), where the Greek editions of Aldus during his lifetime are presented.

Five years after the first and permanent exhibition of Dimitris Perdikidis’s (1922 – 1989) artworks at the premises of the Foundation in Piraeus, we have in hand his design notebooks which take us on his creative journey from 1959 to 1967. These notebooks – “A world in itself” – they open and take us to an era of reconstruction for the artist himself, during which he made an abstract work with his own originality and identity. Perdikidis’s designs include a poetic element with special charm, musicality and sensitivity and through them unfolds a grid of expressive ways that announces his later pioneering artistic developments.