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I went to the National Sculpture Gallery yesterday, here's some highlights.
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The spirit of Copernicus (1877), by Georgios Vroutos.
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Satyr playing with Eros (1877), by Yannoulis Halepas.
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Nana (1896-1897), by Georgios Bonanos - inspired by the heroine of Émile Zola's Nana.
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Centaur (1901), by Thomas Thomopoulos, who is also featured here on this blog, with a stunning sculpture of a broken angel at the cemetery of Anastasi.
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Stout seated woman (1948), by Michael Tombros.
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The Eraser (1980), by Gabriela Simossi.
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The hunter (from the series States of Mind, 2002), by Pantelis Chandris.
And a sculpture by René Magritte, The Therapeutist (Healer) (1967, a gift by Alexandros Iolas, a known art collector and artist promoter of the Greek world.
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Back in the summer I actually went to Nea Moni Chiou, another restored 11th century monastery with a church with beautiful mosaics in the same style as Moni Dafniou and Osios Loukas.
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I also went to Moni Dafniou, an 11th century restored monastery that was built in part with remnants of ancient sites from the surrounding area. The church was built along Nea Moni and Osios Loukas, two churches belonging to monasteries of the 11th century, one in Chios and the other in Boeotia that have been also restored.
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The scenes from the mosaics are from the life of Christ.
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I went to the Sanctuary of Aphrodite in Haidari today and there was a Bonsai exhibition focused on small, bonsai olive trees called Mories Elies (Sacred Olive Trees).
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The exhibition refers to the ancient custom of guarding certain olive trees in Athens considered sacred because they were believed to originate from the first olive tree the goddess Athena planted.
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Is there a drawing of the complete Anthemion crowning stele?
From the Piraeus museum? I am afraid not.
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greek-museums · 10 months
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“Today is (was) International Museum Day! One of my favourite sculptures at the Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης - Archaeological museum of Thessaloniki is this Fountain Statue of a drunken Silenus. I first saw it years ago when I was studying at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki. I was always trying to capture it but I never managed to take a good photo. It took me years to take a decent photo of the artwork, but anyway, here it is. Can you notice the details? It’s worth visiting the museum to see it up close. Late Hellenistic period (1st c. B.C.)” Spyros Giasafakis founder of Daemonia Nymphe https://www.facebook.com/spyros.gias.3/
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greek-museums · 1 year
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I post really irregularly here, so thanks for being here and interacting with the old posts. It means a lot to me.
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greek-museums · 2 years
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If you are human, who hurt you? If you are a bot, you should know I am designated borg queen for the area.
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greek-museums · 2 years
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Unreal, the internet truly has been usurped...one cannot even report getting doxxed and bullied off of it anymore. Real life is not much better with all the phone centers and "what can I do" public employees. Apparently nanopoisoning, and chasing people around in metro stations to give them cell phone heart attacks and strokes is a new fad in Europe. Their offense? Making vast internet armies mildly uncomfortable by confronting them for plagiarism and abusive targeted content.
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greek-museums · 3 years
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Heard you loud and clear. Also if you are a researcher, student, etc, do not be afraid to approach me for material, I have so many photos that I will never get around to editing and posting on this blog. 
The archaeological museum of Kissamos has quite the epigraphic collection…Should I post some of the exhibits, is anyone interested in those? I should also post a couple of things more from the earthquake.
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The archaeological museum of Kissamos has quite the epigraphic collection...Should I post some of the exhibits, is anyone interested in those? I should also post a couple of things more from the earthquake.
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Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
Λ3239 Kissamos, Health Center. Found and donated by D. Vouterakis 1985. Decorative marble group of Aphrodite and Eros sitting on a rock playing guitar. The composition is iconographically unique. Although Eros is often depicted with a guitar or lyre (on lamps, figurines, mosaics, wall paintings, etc.), the depiction of Aphrodite with musical instruments is rare. It probably decorate an atrium. Date: Second half of 1st century A.D.
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Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
Λ3210 Kissamos, El. Venizelos Square 1983. Marble statue of Silinos. The statue worked as a fountain with water flowing from the goatskin on his shoulder. Well polished Parian marble (lychnites). Date 1st 02nd century A.D.
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Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
Λ694 Kissamos, eastern Roman Baths, 1967. Marble statue of a Satyr resting. He leans on a tree trunk, where a pedum for hunting hares in hanging. He wears a panther’s skin and was possibly holding a flute. Under the trunk, a miniature cow is represented. Loose copy of a Hellenistic prototype. Date 2nd century A.D.
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Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
Λ418, Kissamos, Raisakis plot 2005, Naked marble torso of Aphrodite wearing a diadem. Roman copy of a Hellenistic prototype from the end of 4th century B.C. It belongs to the type of Capitoline Aphrodite (modest Aphrodite).
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Crete, Archaeological Museum of Kissamos:
(Λ419) Found in Kissamos, eastern Roman baths, 2005. Marble statue of a young Pan with characteristics of a Satyr. He is holding a hare in his right hand. Roman copy of a Late Hellenistic prototype. Its style is similar to that of the Satyr (694). Date 2nd century A.D 
This statue was found crushed in the Roman baths, possibly from the 365 A.D earthquake, this photo is from the excavations - part of the museum exhibition.
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The Earthquake of 365 A.D.
During the night of July 21, 365 A.D. a terrific earthquake of 8.5 Richter magnitude destroyed Kissamos and other Cretan and Mediterranean cities. It triggered a tsunami that reached the Nile delta and is a possible cause of the uplift of Western Crete. This earthquake signalled the decline of the city and the end of the ancient, pagan world in this area.
Finds from the destruction level include coins and ceramics in accord with the chronology of the earthquake, four human skeletons crushed under the ruins, and intense burning on the floors from fires probably caused by fallen oil lamps. The first evidence of survival are outdoor ovens and cooking hearths constructed on top of the destruction debris.
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greek-museums · 3 years
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Hello! Although I do agree about the suggestion that human remains should be treated with great sensitivity, and I too believe that this particular exhibit could have been presented with greater care. I have to clarify that their tombs were not looted.
Greece is a very small place and many times new buildings or great public works of infrastructure like highways or metro stations happen to be built over existing archaeological sites. In this case rescue excavations remove everything that can be salvaged so it won't be destroyed by the building works.
In remote locations that cannot be guarded, the contents of found tombs are always transferred to archaeological museums and storage houses because looting is still a very unpleasant reality and so human remains and other grave finds are removed to be protected from actual grave robbers.
Most new archaeological museums will take care to present funerary objects, graves and human remains in a single hall devoted to them as an indication of the type of finds to be encountered in the necropolis of their area; to facilitate the work of researchers mostly and also educate people on the importance of protecting these sites so they won't be looted in the future.
I think the best museum dedicated to presenting graves as they are found, in a less exhibitionistic manner, is the Archaeological Museum of Arta, and I am pretty sure in the future many other regional museums will be moved to follow its example.
So this is part of the effort to protect these human beings that once existed, and for a lot of locals visiting these funerary halls does produce a feeling of reverence towards these people.
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Archaeological Museum of Patra:
Four crowned skulls of two little girls, and two women, from the North Cemetery in Patras, from the Hellenistic Period. 
The first skull bears a wreath of gilded myrtle fruits. The deceased wore golden earrings. (300-275 B.C)
The second skull bears a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers. The flowers are earthen, some gilded and others in a variety of colors. (late 4th-3rd cent. B.C)
The third skull bears a gilded myrtle wreath, where apart from the leaves, some of the small fruits have survived as well.
The fourth skull is also decorated with a gilded myrtle wreath. The shaft is made of lead and has been also perforated. Gilded bronze leaves and earthen fruits were attached to the small holes.
A detail from the heads of the two little girls. Damages to the skulls might have occured posthumously- it was not specified in the tags.
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I have seen many luxurious funerary wreaths, made of gold, with extraordinary craftmanship, they are a particular trait of the burials of the Hellenistic period, and these burials were of particularly wealthy, aristocrats of the (Greek) Macedonian elite, usually families of soldiers associated with the campaigns of Alexander the Great. They were discovered either in ornately painted built tombs, under raised mounds, or well built cist graves, who often would also be decorated with painting.
But these burials of commoners, those wreaths of painted, clay flowers are the most touching of them all. It just shows you the exceptional love and care that existed in those ancient families.  
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