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Santorini Evening View Upward — Theodoros Markellos, 1961 | Oil on Canvas
A 1961 oil painting by Theodoros Markellos captures Santorini's whitewashed architecture ascending toward twilight, where cubic forms and diagonal staircases lead the eye upward into a luminous, cooling sky.
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Folegandros, Road with Church — Theodoros Markellos, 1980s | Oil on Canvas
A sun-bleached path winds toward a whitewashed church in this intimate oil painting by Theodoros Markellos. Capturing the quiet geometry of a Cycladic island landscape through layered tones and decisive brushwork.
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Rhodes Rocks and Sea — Theodoros Markellos, 1985 | Oil on Canvas
A 1985 oil painting by Theodoros Markellos captures the Aegean coast in elemental solitude, where jagged rocks and shifting waters merge beneath soft Mediterranean light.
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Stormy Beach, Nerantza
No footprints mark this shore. The wet sand glistens under a diffused, storm-filtered light, and the wave edges dissolve into froth before they reach anything human. In Stormy Beach, Nerantza,...
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Makrinitsa from the Parking Lot Upward
Seen from below, Makrinitsa does not invite — it ascends. Stone houses with terracotta roofs climb the canvas in layered rhythms, pressed upward by a composition that refuses to settle, that tilts...
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Wildflowers in Green Vase
A green vase holds its wildflowers with an almost conversational ease, stems tracing loose arcs across a surface barely larger than a sheet of drafting paper. The blooms — honey-yellow, dusty...
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