The Glory of Psara

As part of the celebrations in 2021 and the 200th anniversary since the Greek revolution for their liberation from the Ottomans, the sculptor Nikos Georgiou was commissioned to create the statue "The Glory of Psara"

Nikolaos Georgiou, 2021 "The Glory of Psara"
With this work Nikos Georgiou keeps pace with Dionysios Solomos and Nikolaos Gyzis, who are representatives of the ideal of the immortal glory.

Nikolaos Gyzis, 1898 "The Glory of Psara"
The glory (Doxa), dressed with a white chiton, records the names of the heroes after the destruction of Psara. Nikolaos Gyzis was inspired by the epigram of the poet Solomos.

Dionysios Solomos, 1825 "The Destruction of Psara"
In this epigram, written by Dionysios Solomos in 1825 on the occasion of the historic event of the destruction of Psara by the Turks, the figure of the personified Glory (Doxa) honors the dead Greeks in a landscape of utter destruction.
"On the burnt ridge of Psara
Glory was walking alone
Recalling the brave young men
She wears a crone on her head
Which was made of the few grass
Which remained on the devastated land"