The National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum: Corfu Annex

The building of the Castellino houses some of the most probing examples of the themes and painting styles that set the tone of Greek art in the past few centuries. The collection includes about 150 works of art (paintings and sculptures) from the National Gallery collections that provide the visitor a guide to the development of different genres. Starting with “The Cross”, possibly painted by Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), the collection follows a clear historical line through the movements that have defined Greek art: the Ionian School, the “Munich” School, modernism, the generation of the 1930s, abstraction, experimentalism of the 1970s, and the “return to painting” from the 1980s onwards.