Art and Culture

The influential role of Classical Greek arts and architecture is undisputed. The emergence of modern Greece after the long period of Turkish and Ottoman rule has brought many artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians to the forefront of Greek culture, among them the Nobel-prizewinning poets Giórgos Seféris and Odysséas Elitis, the filmmakers Mihális Kakoiánnis and Theo Angélopoulos, the plastic artist Takis, and singers Nana Mouskouri and Maria Callas.