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The Refugees of Parga

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The Refugees of Parga (1831) by Francesco Hayez

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]

References

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  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.