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Archaeological Museum Of Piraeus
The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times, Collections The museum's displayed objects are divided in sections:Ministry of Culture (Archaeological Receipts Funds), ''Archaeological Museum of Piraeus'' (brochure) *Prehistoric collection (Mycenaean) *Pottery collection * Bronze statues *A reconstruction of a typical Classical sanctuary (Cybele's) *Classical gravestones *Large funerary monuments *Hellenistic sculptures *Roman sculptures The building The old building of the museum (330 m2 ), which is currently used as a storage room, was built in 1935. The new two-store building, which was inaugurated in 1981, covers a total area of total 1.394 m2. Both buildings neighbour on the Zeas ( el, Ζέα) ancient classical theater. In the near future, the theater site is going to be used as an open-air sculpture exhibition. Visitors information The museum is accessible with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piraeus Station
Piraeus ( el, Πειραιάς, ) is the name of two railway stations in Piraeus, Greece, approximately 9 km south-west of the centre of Athens. The southern building is the present terminus of Athens Metro Line 1, formerly the Athens-Piraeus Railways Co that opened in 1869. The northern building is the railway terminus for standard gauge railway services of the Athens Suburban Railway to the Acharnes Railway Center and . Both buildings are located next to the seaport. The Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus is located in the station, in the space of the former Post Office. History Piraeus metro station The Piraeus metro station opened in 1869 by Sap company to connect Piraeus and Athens (at the time Piraeus was not yet integral part of Athens agglomeration) as a conventional steam single-track mixed cargo and passenger railway line and electrified in 1904 however, the line had open between Thissio and Piraeus (with the first terminal in Neo Faliro) in 1869, becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeological Museum Of Piraeus
The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times, Collections The museum's displayed objects are divided in sections:Ministry of Culture (Archaeological Receipts Funds), ''Archaeological Museum of Piraeus'' (brochure) *Prehistoric collection (Mycenaean) *Pottery collection * Bronze statues *A reconstruction of a typical Classical sanctuary (Cybele's) *Classical gravestones *Large funerary monuments *Hellenistic sculptures *Roman sculptures The building The old building of the museum (330 m2 ), which is currently used as a storage room, was built in 1935. The new two-store building, which was inaugurated in 1981, covers a total area of total 1.394 m2. Both buildings neighbour on the Zeas ( el, Ζέα) ancient classical theater. In the near future, the theater site is going to be used as an open-air sculpture exhibition. Visitors information The museum is accessible with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pottery Of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide available to understand the customary life and mind of the ancient Greeks. There were several vessels produced locally for everyday and kitchen use, yet finer pottery from regions such as Attica was imported by other civilizations throughout the Mediterranean, such as the Etruscans in Italy.John H. Oakley (2012). "Greek Art and Architecture, Classical: Classical Greek Pottery," in Neil Asher Silberman et al. (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Vol 1: Ache-Hoho'', Second Edition, 641–644. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. , p. 641. There were a multit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek Sculpture
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323) and Hellenistic. At all periods there were great numbers of Greek terracotta figurines and small sculptures in metal and other materials. The Greeks decided very early on that the human form was the most important subject for artistic endeavour. Seeing their gods as having human form, there was little distinction between the sacred and the secular in art—the human body was both secular and sacred. A male nude of Apollo or Heracles had only slight differences in treatment to one of that year's Olympic boxing champion. The statue, originally single but by the Hellenistic period often in groups was the dominant form, though reliefs, often so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek Art
Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation. The rate of stylistic development between about 750 and 300 BC was remarkable by ancient standards, and in surviving works is best seen in Ancient Greek sculpture, sculpture. There were important innovations in painting, which have to be essentially reconstructed due to the lack of original survivals of quality, other than the distinct field of painted pottery. Greek architecture, technically very simple, established a harmonious style with numerous detailed conventions that were largely adopted by Roman architecture and are still followed in some modern buildings. It used a vocabulary of ornament (art), ornament that was shared with pottery, metalwork and other media, and had an enormous influence on Eurasian art, especially after Buddhism carried it beyond the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In Greece
This is a list of museums in Greece by regional unit. Attica Central Athens :Archaeological *Acropolis Museum * Archaeological Museum of Kerameikos *Epigraphical Museum *Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art * Museum of the Ancient Agora *Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies *National Archaeological Museum of Athens *Old Acropolis Museum *Numismatic Museum of Athens * Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection :Byzantine, Ecclesiastic *Byzantine and Christian Museum (of Athens) :Biographical, City, Diachronic, Ethnic, Ethnographic, History, Historic House *Benaki Museum *Eleftherios Venizelos Historical Museum *Jewish Museum of Greece *Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou * Museum of the City of Athens * National Historical Museum of Greece (Old Parliament House) :Folklore, Folk art *Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery *Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum *Museum of Greek Folk Art *Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments *Museum of the History of the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silanion
Silanion ( grc-gre, Σιλανίων, ''gen.'' Σιλανίωνος) was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. Pliny gives his ''floruit'' as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (''Naturalis Historia'', 34.51), and records he had no famous teacher. His idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, ''c.'' 370 BC. Later copies of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho survive. Both are of simple ideal type, the Sappho not strictly a portrait, since Sappho (sixth century BC) lived before the age of portraiture. The best copy of the Plato is in the Glyptothek of Munich (''illustration''). Silanion also produced a "portrait" of the poet Corinna. Other "portrait" heads by Silanion evoked mythic and legendary heroes. An Achilles mentioned by Pliny was later adapted to represent Ares,S. Lattimore, "Ares and the Heads of Heroes", ''American Journal of Archaeology' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphranor
AGMA Apollon Patroos Euphranor. Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) was a Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter. Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including a cavalry battle, a Theseus, and the feigned madness of Odysseus among the paintings; and Paris, Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis, and Philip and Alexander in chariots among the statues. No known existing statues have been identified as copies from works of Euphranor (but see a series of attributions by Six in Jahrbuch, 1909, 7 foil.). His work appears to have resembled that of his contemporary Lysippus, notably in the attention he paid to symmetry, in his preference for bodily forms slighter than those usual in earlier art, and in his love of heroic subjects. He wrote a (now lost) treatise on proportions. He was a contemporary of Antorides, and, like him, studied under Ariston.Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piraeus Artemis
Piraeus Artemis refers to two bronze statues of Artemis excavated in Piraeus, Athens in 1959, along with a large theatrical mask (possibly in honor of Dionysus) and three pieces of marble sculptures. Two other statues were found in the buried cache as well: a larger-than-lifesize bronze Archaic Greece, Late Archaic Apollo (Piraeus Apollo) and a similarly sized bronze fourth century-style Athena (Piraeus Athena). Both statues are now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus in Athens. Piraeus possessed a primary seaport, Port of Piraeus, Cantharus, and, due to the foreign influence of trade and the mercenary garrison on Munychia hill, the city was also entry point for new cults in Attica. It has been theorized that this cache was a shipment that may have been overtaken when the Roman general, Sulla, sacked Piraeus in 86 BCE. However, since the various statues date from a time span of approximately five centuries, it could not have been shipped on private commission. It is po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piraeus Lion
The Piraeus Lion ( it, Leone del Pireo) is one of four lion statues on display at the Venetian Arsenal, Italy, where it was displayed as a symbol of Venice's patron saint, Saint Mark. History It was originally located in Piraeus, the harbour of Athens. It was looted by Venetian naval commander Francesco Morosini in 1687 as plunder taken in the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire, during which the Venetians captured Athens and Morosini's cannons caused damage to the Parthenon that was matched only by his subsequent sack of the city. Copies of the statue can also be seen at the Piraeus Archaeological Museum and the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. The lion was originally sculpted in about 360 BC, and became a famous landmark in Piraeus, Athens, having stood there since the 1st or 2nd century AD. Its prominence was such that the port eventually became referred to in Italian as ("Lion Port") as the port's original name ceased to be used. It is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piraeus Apollo
The ''Piraeus Apollo'' is an archaic-style bronze dating from the 6th century BC, possibly from the years 530–520 BC, exhibited now at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens. Overview The ''Piraeus Apollo'' is a product of the late archaic period (530–480 BC), and is among the few bronzes from that time period to have survived. It is also thought to be a very rare survival of a piece that may have been actually used as the cult image in a Greek temple. In the last few decades of the 6th century, the philosophical mystic currents were to have a considerable influence on late archaic art. The logical move from Ionian natural philosophy to metaphysics was the conscious decision of post-archaic mind. In the post-archaic period, the illusive imaginative reality was displaced by harmony and symmetry. The method of interaction and analogy was perfected by Polykleitos in the classical period. He used the principle of continuity and in his famous sculptures each member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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