At the age of 83, the director of the National Gallery of Greece Marina Lambraki-Plaka passed away in the early hours of Monday 13 June.
Marina Lambraki-Plaka served as Director of the National Gallery of Greece since 1992. She was an art historian, archaeologist and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
She served as Deputy Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in the 2015 caretaker government.
She was born in Arkalochori, Heraklion, Crete. She married at the age of 17 the philologist Dimitris Plakas.
In the period 1959-1964 she studied at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens. He did his postgraduate studies in Classical Archaeology, having received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.).
During the period 1965-1968 he attended courses in Art History by Professor Pantelis Prevelakis at the Athens School of Fine Arts. During the years 1968-1971 he completed postgraduate studies in the History and Sociology of Art at the University of Sorbonne. In 1973 she received a "State Doctorate" from the University of Sorbonne.
In 1975 she was elected unanimously as Full Professor of Art History at the Athens School of Fine Arts and became the first woman Professor in the history of the School.
She received a number of national and international awards and distinctions, including the Order of the Knight and Brigadier of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (1997 and 2005), the Order of Alphonsus the Wise of the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2000), the Gold Cross of the Order of Honour from the President of the Hellenic Republic (2004), the Order of the Knight and Brigadier of Arts and Letters of the Italian Republic (1994 and 2007), the Order of the Knight of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic (2011).
Source: CNA
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