The Refugees of Parga

The Refugees of Parga is an 1831 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia.[1][2] It shows Greek refugees fleeing Parga after the British sold it to the Ottoman Empire in 1819.[3]

The Refugees of Parga (1831) by Francesco Hayez

References
  1. "Entry on the Turismo Brescia site" (in Italian).
  2. "Gallery film on the painting". YouTube (in Italian).
  3. (in Spanish) Rolf Toman (editor) (2008). Neoclasicismo y romanticismo. Barcelona, España: Tandem Verlag GmbH. p. 522. ISBN 978-3-8331-5103-3.


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