Headed Nikolaos Gyzis: The Great Painter, the exhibition coincides with the 101st anniversary of the death of the eminent painter, featuring major paintings and rare oil paintings, drawings, sculptures and posters. Enriched with works mainly from the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki and several other collections, the exhibition also includes portraits and scenes from the artist's family, reflecting on religious and allegorical subjects, ethnographic themes and landscapes.

Nikolaos Gyzis was born on the island of Tinos in 1842 and studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts. In 1864, he got a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he later became a professor and lived there for the rest of his life.

Thus, Gyzis became one of the most important representatives of the so-called Munich School, a major 19th-century Greek art movement. Among his most famous paintings are the Carnival in Athens, the Secret School, the Arravoniasmata (Engagement Ceremony) and the After the destruction of Psara. The exhibition runs until February 3, 2013.