Exhibitions
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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