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About The Artist: Chryssa

Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. Chryssa comes from a famous and once-powerful family from the Deep Mani. She herself has said, "I do not come from a rich family [but from] a family with good education (for example, one of my sisters studied medicine) and good exposure to the creative arts": This sister, for instance, was a friend of Greek poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. An...