Pangrati has attracted artists from all over Greece, who arrive in the city of Athens to educate themselves and to seek inspiration from its vast pool of artistic resources and galleries. Poets, novelists, writers, painters, composers, musicians made Pangrati one of the most important artistic hubs of Athens. One of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate,
Giorgos Seferis lived in Pangrati.
Manos Hatzidakis, composer who also received an
Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song
Never on Sunday from the film of the same name is the personality mostly associated with this Athenian neighbourhood. Other artists who lived in Pangrati include
Nikiforos Vrettakos,
Yiannis Moralis,
Kostas Varnalis,
Dimitris Psathas and many others. in Pangrati The
National Gallery of Athens, a museum primarily devoted to post-Byzantine Greek Art was renovated recently in a $71,60 million expansion project, hosts the biggest collection of Greek paintings making it one of the most important spots of the neighbourhood. The
National Hellenic Research Foundation is also located in Pangrati.
Maria Callas, the famous soprano, has also studied in the
Athens Conservatoire, which lies within Pangrati, just next to the Cult of
Hercules Pankrates, directly beneath the
Harry S. Truman statue in
Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue. At Agios Spyridon Church, a new museum has changed the cultural map of Athens as the
Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art opened its gates in October 2019. The Goulandris Museum hosts a world class collection of works by
Picasso,
Chagall,
Van Gogh,
Gauguin,
El Greco,
Degas, Klee, Kandinsky,
Rodin,
Cézanne,
Monet,
Miró, Giacometti,
Pollock,
Bacon and others as well as by prominent Greek artists including George Bouzianis,
Yannis Tsarouchis,
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika,
Yannis Moralis and Michalis Tombos.
Princeton University has recently inaugurated the
Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies in Pangrati. The Center is housed in the
Stanley J. Seeger ’52 House, a 1930s-era townhouse. It is the one and only research and scholarship center of
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