Greek art - Finestre sull'Arte

Ruins as warning and memory: the Platonic Oath and the Acropolis of Athens

In 1945, theArchitectural Press in London published a book of a few pages entitled Bombed Churches as War Memorial. The pamphlet argued that ruined churches damaged by the bombs of war should remain as such so that they could be transformed into visu...
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In Rome, Italy's first monographic exhibition dedicated to Phidias. Also exhibited are some original fragments of the Parthenonian frieze

From Nov. 24, 2023, to May 5, 2024, the Capitoline Museums - Villa Caffarelli in Rome will host for the first time in Italy a monographic exhibition dedicated to Phidias, the greatest Greek sculptor of the classical age linked to the construction and...
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August 16, 1972-2022: the intricate 50 contemporary years of the Riace Bronzes

Thursday, August 17, 1972. In an office of the Superintendence of Antiquities of Calabria, in Reggio, the young Roman diver Stefano Mariottini declares that on the afternoon of the previous day he had found"during an underwater dive for fishing purpo...
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The Riace Bronzes. History of the two masterpieces of Greek sculpture.

The extraordinary story of the Riace Bronzes, the two sculptures of Greek origin, dated to the fifth century B.C. and now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Reggio Calabria, began on August 16, 1972: on that day, the young Roman amateur ...
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The erotic ceramics of the National Archaeological Museum in Tarquinia.

The room of ancient ceramics of the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia is one of the passages of the visit itinerary of Palazzo Vitelleschi where the public lingers the longest, given the vastness and importance of the collection of ...
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