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Monday, May 5, 2008

Hydra



Yannis Stavrou, Hydra, oil on canvas

"Hydra saved its beautiful face from the catastrophic mania of our age by chance, I would say. Although some houses have been added, the initial picture is preserved; the simple and the wise architecture of the old masters, the stone constructions, the roofs..."

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