Kerameikos Archaeological Museum, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Κεραμεικού, Athens, Greece If you have spent any time looking at the funerary stele at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, you will have noticed that many were found in Kerameikos – the ancient cemetery of the city. Over the years, my interest in stele has dipped in and out, but when I visited Greece…
Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World, Exhibition at the National Museum of Athens, Greece A small exhibition in the Archaeological Museum in Athens highlighted portrait busts created during the rule of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. The exhibits are all from the museum, but by placing them all together, you get to see portraits from a specific era, which…
…continued from Part One… The incredible collection of statues in the National Archaeological Museum shows the continuation of the Greek efforts to create three dimensional figures, first to depict deities, then to commemorate individuals. I know that a lot of people don’t like Archaic art – that is, the style that was in vogue before the Classical style, which is…
National Archaeological Museum, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο, Athens, Greece When you’re in a city like Athens, you can’t help but feel spoilt for choice when it comes to museums. In fact, I found it almost overwhelming trying to decide which were the must-visits of our week in the city. The National Archaeological Museum was clearly top of the museum list –…
The Countless Aspects of Beauty Exhibition, “Οι αμέτρητες όψεις του Ωραίου“, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece The vast and incredible collection of ancient artefacts in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is almost too overwhelming. Literally every room is packed full of incredible objects and what a joy it is to explore. However, the museum clearly doesn’t have that much…