Athens - National Gallery (Alexandros Soutsos Museum)

The National Gallery (Alexandros Soutsos Museum) is housed in a new building in Leofóros Vasiléos Konstantinou. On the ground floor are icons and pictures by Greek painters of the 19th and 20th C. (historical and genre pictures, seascapes, portraits). On the upper floor are pictures by European painters, including Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Breughel and Jordaens, and among the moderns Picasso, Braque and others.

Works by the Cretan-born El Greco occupy a place of honor.

There are also works by many Greek painters, including Nikólaos Gizis, Nikifóros Lystras, Andréas Kriézis, Vikéntios Lántsas and Simeon Savvídis. Visitors are likely to be particularly interested in their pictures on Greek subjects (scenes from the everyday life of the people, the ever popular theme of the Acropolis).

In the basement are a collection of graphic art and special exhibitions, as well as a cafeteria.

The new sculpture gallery is also worth a visit.