Byzantine Museum, Zakynthos, a must visit site for you as part of the Tourist Attractions in Zakynthos. The museum boasts of a rich collection of various ecclesiastical items, carved masterpieces, post-Byzantine icons screens, wooden artifacts, wood carvings dating back to the 16th century, reconstructed frescoes and more such items. Byzantine Museum, Zakynthos was built after the earthquake of 1953 and it was organized by the Academician Manolis Hadzidakis and was opened to the public in 1960. It is located in the capital of Zakynthos or Zante on the south side of the Solomos Square.
Byzantine Museum, Zakynthos is well known for its collection of hagiographies from the Byzantine times to the 19th century, Hellenistic and Byzantine sculpture and statues and some beautiful icon-stands from the churches. The museum houses rare and exquisite works of art made by famous Ionian and Cretan painters as well as works of great Zakynthian hagiographers such as Doxaras, Koutouzis, Tzanes, Kandounis and Damaskinos.
Among the other items on display at the museum, you will find works in wood and wood carving from16th - 19th centuries, wall paintings from12th-13th and 17th-18th centuries, antique tools and vessels and icons of the 15th-16th centuries belonging to the Cretan-Ionian island school and Ionian island naturalistic style. There is also a small gallery with sculptural works of the Hellenistic, Early Christian, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods.
The Byzantine Museum, Zakynthos has a scale model of the pre-earthquake town which was built by the Venetians. It houses a brilliant collection of icons and frescoes rescued from the destroyed churches and monasteries of the island. The older exhibits in the museum are fine examples of Byzantine art and the works of Panagiotis Doxaras who studied in Venice, are of naturalistic style and belong to the Ionian Island School. The museum also contains works of Nicholaos Koutouzis and Nicholas, son of Doxaras and they both continued in the Western tradition. You will also find here icon screens from the churches of the Pantokrator and Agios Dimitrios as well as parts of the exterior of Agios Andreas of Volimes. Byzantine Museum, Zakynthos is open daily except on Mondays when it remains open from 8 am to 2.30 pm.
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