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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

ALEXANDROS IOLAS, A GREEK PIONEER OF THE 20th CENTURY

Alexandros Iolas posing nude in René Magritte's atelier, 1928


Captured by Herbert List's camera

In his villa in Athens
It is said that as Cronus ate his children, modern Greece still eats its children. Alexandros Iolas is a proof.
Read more about this fascinating "homo universalis" and the fate of his heritage in Greece here.

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