Slideshow: Ancient Games at the British Museum
I’m sure we’ll see more of this exhibit over the next while: Ancient games exhibit at the British Museum
Getty Gets Some Relief
From a Getty Press Release: The J. Paul Getty Museum today placed on view a Decree Relief with Antiochos and Herakles, the first Greek loan to arise from a 2011 framework for cultural cooperation between the Getty and the Hellenic Republic Ministry of Culture. On loan from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the marble [...]
Museo Parc Alesia
I could have sworn I mentioned this museum when it opened, but I guess not (it’s probably lurking way in the bottom of my email) … anyhoo, here’s a nice AFP video report:
Apollo Saettante at the Getty
Today I was sent a Getty Press Release of interest: After eighteen months of analysis, conservation, and re-stabilization, the bronze statue of Apollo Saettante (Apollo as an Archer) from Pompeii will go on view at the Getty Villa from March 2 to September 12, 2011 in the exhibition Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze. [...]
Agrigento Youth at the Getty
Image via Wikipedia From a Getty mailing that just landed in my box: The Agrigento Youth, one of the masterpieces of the Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento in southwestern Sicily, goes on view today at the Getty Villa in a gallery devoted to images of athletes and athletic competition (Gallery 211). On loan to the [...]
Villa Farnesina Frescoes On View Again
Image via CrunchBase From the New York Times: “A blinding vision.” That’s how the first century B.C. Roman architect and theoretician Vitruvius described the fresco technique popular during his time, and it’s an apt description for the newly revamped rooms of an ancient villa that is showcased at the Palazzo Massimo, part of the Roman [...]
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater @ the Getty
From a Getty Press release: The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, on view at the Getty Villa from August 26, 2010 – January 3, 2011, is the first exhibition in the United States in over fifty years to focus on the artistic representation of theatrical performance in ancient Greece. Assembling international loans of antiquities from [...]
Harpocrates in ‘Devotion and Ritual’ Exhibition
Image via Wikipedia Nice little feature, but lacking a photo (the one accompanying this post is not the one mentioned in the article): Today, the Keith and Zara Joseph Collection goes on public display for the first time in the Potter Museum’s classic and archaeology gallery as part of an exhibition called Devotion and Ritual. [...]
Pompeii Casts on Display
Nice little video from the BBC: more about “Pompeii Casts“, posted with vodpod From the accompanying text (with a somewhat unfortunate headline, as FT noted on twitter last night): They are the skeletal remains of the victims that have been preserved under a thin veneer of plaster, to give them their life form. “Until now, [...]
Swords and Armour at the Colosseum
Another one that seems to be beginning to make the rounds: An array of colourful and deadly-looking helmets, swords, daggers and shields has gone on display at the Colosseum, bringing to life the gladiatorial games of ancient times. The exhibition features around 30 gladiatorial artefacts unearthed at the archaeological site of Pompeii but the focus [...]
Met Returns on Display
Brief AP item making the rounds … here’s the incipit from the Daily Herald: A collection of ancient Greek silverware dating to the third century B.C. is going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York, officials said Friday. The 16 pieces of silverware with gold detail were returned [...]
Citanda – Exhibition: “L’Eta della Conquista”
Review of a show at the Capitoline Museum: In Rome, Revisiting the Spoils of War – In Transit Blog | NYTimes.com.
Citanda: Antiquities Lent By Italy At the Met
Not sure if we’ve mentioned this one yet: Antiquities Lent By Republic Of Italy On View At Metropolitan Museum | Antiques and the Arts Online.
Citanda: Rome’s stamp on America
Interesting review of an exhibition entitled Ancient Rome & America: Rome’s stamp on America | Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ancient Greece Exhibition @ Liverpool World Museum
Reviews: Ancient Greece exhibition at Liverpool World Museum | Click Liverpool The Inspirational World of the Ancient Greeks Revealed at World Museum | Art Daily … no official ‘museum page’ yet, alas (despite the link in one of the articles)
Exhibition – Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Intro to a nice little page on the exhibition … the page includes a ‘What Greek Hero Are You’ quiz and a number of audio bits: Organized by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, with loans from museums in the United States and Europe, this exhibition of approximately 100 objects defines various types of ancient Greek [...]
The Roman Swiss Army Knife
The Fitzwilliam is certainly getting a lot of press attention, and each item revealed seems for interesting than the next. The Daily Mail, ferinstance, is highlighting the exhibition of a Roman precursor to the Swiss Army Knife: The world’s first Swiss Army knife’ has been revealed – made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart. An [...]
Exhibition: Eros – From Hesiod’s Theogeny to Late Antiquity
At the Athens Museum of Cycladic Art: Eros: From Hesiod’s Theogeny to Late Antiquity | Independent
The Fitzwilliam Has Some Interesting Stuff
From Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S treasure house of art has opened a gleaming new window on what life was like for ordinary people thousands of years ago. Experts at the Fitzwilliam Museum have spent the past 18 months revamping its famous collection of ancient Greek and Roman artefacts – and from Saturday, visitors will be able [...]
Medusa from Caesarea
A unique archaeological exhibition has opened in Caesarea harbor: for the first time the general public can see an extraordinary 1,700 year old sarcophagus cover that is one of the most impressive ever discovered in Caesarea. The cover, which weighs more than 4 tons, is decorated with snake-haired medusa heads and joyful and sad-faced masks. [...]
New at the Getty
More news on the benefits the Getty is receiving from its agreement with Italy … the incipit of a brief item from Reuters: California’s Getty Museum, one of the world’s richest art institutions, has received the first two artworks from Italy under a deal that settled a 2006 dispute over looted antiquities. Getty officials said [...]
Breviaria
Cleaning out the rest of the inbox … A new roof for Newport Roman Villa: Roofing work starts at Roman villa (County Press) Coverage of Richard Seaford’s thoughts about Greek money at the Classical Association: Ancient Greeks could throw light on financial crisis, says professor Coverage of the “Subversive Classics” session at Princeton: Down on [...]
DSS Exhibition Tempest Brewing?
Somewhat tangential to our purview, but dealing with an exhibition I”m likely to go to (the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum), we are just starting to hear rumblings of this … an excerpt from the Toronto Star: The Conservative government is staying mum on a letter from senior Palestinian officials opposing a [...]
Skull-a-Day Ad for Pompeii?
One of the nice things about these four-day weekends is that I have time to check out things that are of interest to me. In this case, an item in the LA Times blog notes (inter alia): Chalk it up to an over-eager marketing team at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On Wednesday, [...]
Exhibition: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany
From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany January 25-May 17 Meadows Museum (SMU Dallas) Exhibition website (not much there; a few general images; elsewhere SMU has a slideshow): From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany Reviews/Press Coverage: Meadows Museum Opens Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Etruscan Art Ever Shown in [...]
