7th Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture: Euphrosyne Doxiadis

  • March 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

    London, London WC2R 2LS
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Description

Seventh Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture

Euphrosyne Doxiadis: 'The Eye of the Beholder: From The Fayum Portraits to a Painting in Trafalgar Square'

Abstract: Euphrosyne Doxiadis will speak about the two areas of research to which she has dedicated her life: firstly, about the Fayum Portraits, the postclassical Greco-Roman painted portraits found in the Egyptian deserts and their importance as works of art; secondly, about the artist Peter Paul Rubens and his masterful works. She will present the findings of her decades-long attempts to show why the painting called Samson and Delilah is an unacceptable misattribution to Rubens. She has demonstrated that the painting is a 20th-century copy of a now lost 17th-century master painting. Since 1992, she and others have tried to open the discussion about the painting's nature with the painting's guardians at the National Gallery, including the NG Trustees, who have not responded to the requests she has made through correspondence and through an open letter on the site www.InRubensName.org, a petition that has now been signed by more than 500 people. 

About the speaker: 

Euphrosyne Doxiadis was born in Athens in 1946. She studied at the Oscar Kokoschka School of Seeing in Salzburg, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA, and at the Wimbledon School of Art, London, as a ‘mature’ student. In 1995, she published The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt (new edn. 2024), which was awarded the Bordin Prize by the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux Arts (1996) and an Academy of Athens prize. Since 1987, Euphrosyne has been researching the problems of the painting called Samson and Delilah in London’s National Gallery (inventory number NG6461), which, she argues, was wrongly attributed to the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. Her book NG 6461: The Fake National Gallery Rubens is hot off the press (2025, Eris Press, London and New York; current site about NG646: http://www.inRubensName.org), and the speaker will tell us more about her discoveries in the lecture. Euphrosyne’s paintings have seen numerous international solo exhibitions. She has been artist-in-residence and lecturer at the Aegean Centre for the Fine Arts on the Aegean Island of Paros from 1990 until today.

 

Date & Time

Thu, Mar 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue Details

Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

London, London WC2R 2LS Council Room, KCL Strand Campus
Centre for Hellenic Studies

The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London is a unique grouping of academics in different disciplines and departments, with interests and expertise covering more than three millennia, from Aegean prehistory to the history, language, literature and culture of Greece, Cyprus and the worldwide Greek diaspora today.Founded in 1989, the Centre is committed to promoting knowledge and understanding of Greek history, language, and culture of all periods, and in particular the fostering of research with a comparative focus, whether cross-cultural or exploring the diachronic spectrum of Hellenism itself.