Anastasia Manioudaki

Art Historian, she graduated from the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Athens and has a Masters degree in Art History from the University of Sussex. She is a member of the Association of Greek Art Historians.She has worked in the National Gallery of Art in Athens and in the 4th Athens Biennale AGORA (2013). She has taught Art History in the Municipal Art School of Aghia Paraskevi and in the digital university Iversity (Berlin). She was the assistant curator of the exhibition Inferno of George Pol. Ioannidis in the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens (2017-2018), where she presented the painter’s work in a lecture at the Institute. Her articles have been published in Ta Nea tis Technis and avopolis.gr. Recently, one of her short stories was among the winners in the 2nd short story competition of Ianos bookstore and was published.

Stories By Anastasia Manioudaki

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Arcimboldo’s Allegories of the Seasons
By Anastasia ManioudakiSeptember 24, 2020
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s paintings of the four seasons have astonished audiences from the sixteenth century to this day. Even though, allegorical representations are quite common in the history of art, Arcimboldo’s portraits manage to capture the spirit...
19th Century

Mythological Femmes Fatales in the Mysterious Symbolist Paintings
By Anastasia ManioudakiSeptember 9, 2020
Symbolism developed in the 19th century, it began as a literary movement but quickly moved into other art forms. Symbolist painters rejected the advent of new technologies, scientific thought, and naturalism. Instead, they favored thoughts and...
Art History 101

Art History 101: Twelve Portraits You Should Know
By Anastasia ManioudakiAugust 10, 2020
Let us embark on a journey through the course of art history with twelve significant portraits everybody should definitely know! The human need to capture its likeness comes with the birth of civilization, making portraiture one...
20th century

Painting of the Week: Henri Rousseau, The Football Players
By Anastasia ManioudakiJuly 26, 2020
Welcome to the bizarre world of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the quintessential naïve artist, and meet his oneiric, striped football players. Four almost identical men are having a good time, probably in a park in Paris. They...
19th Century

6 Highlights from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin
By Anastasia ManioudakiJune 21, 2020
Let’s explore some highlights from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the preeminent collection of 19th century art in Germany. The gallery was founded in 1861 after a bequest by banker Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener. He requested...
Art History 101

What Is a Tronie? Famous Examples of Tronies in Dutch and Flemish Baroque
By Anastasia ManioudakiMay 30, 2020
The Dutch and Flemish Baroque of the 17th century is mostly known through the works of Rembrandt in the Dutch Republic and Rubens in Flanders. However, during this period, genre painting, the painting of everyday life,...
19th Century

Vincent van Gogh Copying Other Artists
By Anastasia ManioudakiMay 27, 2020
Vincent van Gogh is famous nowadays for two things. Firstly, his unstoppable creativity – he produced 2,100 artworks in just over a decade. And, secondly, his struggles with his mental health. The famous ear incident was...
19th Century

When the Arts Meet: Art Inspired Album Covers
By Anastasia ManioudakiMay 11, 2020
If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at a glance it conveys...
19th Century

Victorian Feminists and Their Supernatural Powers
By Anastasia ManioudakiApril 20, 2020
The Victorian feminists in nineteenth-century England paved the way for the women’s movement across the world. The ‘New Woman’, as she was called, demanded social equality, economic independence and the right to education. However, many people...
20th century

The Window and the Pitchfork: The Story Behind Wood’s American Gothic
By Anastasia ManioudakiMarch 25, 2020
Under the blue sky of Iowa, a man and a woman stand solemnly in front of their house. They are farmers as suggested by their clothing and the pitchfork the man is holding. This is Wood’s...