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A museum takes to the street, promoting ancient art classics as street art in Chiado, Bairro Alto and Principe Real in Lisbon.
What would the artists of these classic works of art say if they saw their work exhibited in the streets? Would they ever have imagined this?
The National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon has decided to bring the museum onto the streets with very high quality reproductions of 31 classical masterpieces from its collection, in an initiative similar to “The Grand Tour” promoted by The National Gallery in London in Convent Garden, Soho and Chinatown.
It is definitely worth checking out Chiado, Bairro Alto and Principe Real to feel the atmosphere of a Street Museum! After that, why not reward the National Museum of Ancient Art with a visit?
Photography by © George Lyra
Valdivia 8 (Piquigua Phase) from the Atahualpa Site (N3A1-001) Ecuador. Ultra Rare stone. Monolith stone block in bas-relief embellished with deep excised carvings on all six sides. Typically said by many to stylized zoomorphic features and resemble an owl. We disagree, as they appear to be humanoid showing either appendages or articles of clothing. Measures 10" in hight.
Villa Boscoreale is an ancient Roman villa located in the town of Boscoreale, about one and a half kilometers north of Pompeii, southeast of Vesuvius, in Campania, southern Italy
Funerary stele with sea creatures. Limestone, first century AD. Salona (Solin) Croatia. Taken at the Archeology Museum in Split, Croatia.
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Issued by Monnaie de Paris to vividly depict two of the most compelling architectural and cultural masterpieces in Paris.
The interior part of the Orsay Museum's nef shows its arch's glorified by a gold deposit. In the center of the coin we find Orsay's clock which reminds us of the last function of this place: a train station. The exceptional façade of the Petit Palais is in the lower part of the coin with a rhodium deposit which highlights the iron structure of this place.
Nice example of a Bahia de Caraquez - La Plata type seated shaman. Evidence of cranial deformation in practice. Legs crossed and hands are held to his knees as in a spiritual state. Hint of post fired pigments are visible. Head garment, ear plugs and nose ring are intact and in overall nice condition. Manabi region, Ecuador. 500BC/500AD. Measures just under 7" in height. 17.5 cm.
Part of a series of stunningly well-preserved cave drawings in Somaliland. Impressive both in the quantity and quality. UNESCO needs to make this a world heritage site.
"11. Sarcophagus with Nereids.
A group of Nereids are shown riding dolphins. One of the Nereids was Thetis, mother of Achilles, and the figures are shown bearing the weapons which would make him the most fearsome warrior below the walls of Troy. Dated to 140-159 A.D."
Taken in the Vatican Museum in Vatican City, Italy.
Vaciado en bronce de XVII de ¿copia? de original ¿griego? ¿helenístico?
Palacio Real
Exposición "Velázquez. Esculturas para el alcázar."
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
An excellent and colossal size ceremonial hacha from Ecuador. Made from beautifully mottled greenish-yellow diorite stone. Highly polished, good deposits, Choice condition. Measures over 17" in height by 10" wide. Santa Elena, Ecuador. 4400 - 1450 BC.
These extraordinary large stone axes were symbolic and interred as payment to mother earth.
The Iron Age triple-faced Corleck Head stone carving in the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology in Dublin.
Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery return to the Crow Collection for a week-long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric Buddhist mandala sand painting. During the week, millions of grains of crushed marble are painstakingly laid into place in this ancient spiritual art form to generate energies for global healing.
Marble portraits of a young woman (fore) and an elderly woman (back); Roman, Trajanic period, ca. A.D. 98-120.; Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Denarius, MN. AEMILIO LEP, Ancient Roman Republic, 114-113 BC
The name of the figure of the equestrian statue is unknown, but the three arches are thought to represent a section of an aqueduct begun by the Censor M. Aemilius Lepidus in 179 BC, perhaps depicting specifically where it crossed the Via Praenestina. The moneyer may have been the son of another M. Aemilius Lepidus, the consul of 126 BC.
Moneyer: MN. AEMILIO LEP (Mn. Aemilius Lepidus)
Minted in Rome
Reverse Description
Equestrian statue on a structure of three arches, the horseman holds a spear (?) in his right hand which appears to be placed behind both his arm and the horse itself,; around, MN. AEMILI.; within arches, LEP
Edge Description
Plain
South Arabian. 1st century BCE–1st century CE. Calcite-alabaster. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Rathadum, the donor's name, is written below the roundel.
Today's word is hoary, which comes from hoar (frost), from Old English har. Earliest documented use: 1530.
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Vaciado en bronce de XVII de ¿copia? de original ¿griego? ¿helenístico?
Palacio Real
Exposición "Velázquez. Esculturas para el alcázar."
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Greek, 510 BC
For the Greeks, the mythical Trojan War was the central event in their early history. Episodes from the conflict fill Greek art and literature, and a scene from the culmination of the battle, the sack of Troy, decorates the front of this Athenian black-figure neck-amphora. The Trojan hero Aeneas has lifted his aged father Anchises onto his back in order to carry him to safety. They are preceded by Aeneas's young son. Behind them, the goddess Aphrodite, who had once been Anchises' lover and is Aeneas's mother, gestures in grief and sympathy. The painter who decorated this vase labeled Aphrodite, Aeneas, and Anchises, adding a popular formulaic comment on their beauty, but he also added a variety of nonsense inscriptions--combinations of letters with no apparent meaning--to this scene and others on the vase.
On the neck, a charioteer rides in a four-horse chariot (quadriga), while on the reverse, a warrior departs for – or maybe returns from – battle with his dog. An elderly man, marked by his white hair, gestures before him, and a woman, perhaps his mother or wife, watches from the right. On the reverse of the body, Dionysos, the god of wine, carries a kantharos or drinking cup, between two satyrs, his part-horse, part-human companions. The satyr on the right appears to dance to the music of aulos (double pipes) played by his counterpart.
Expressive example with fine incised surface details. Beautiful burnished and incised tan clay surface. Nice facial features, pierced nose and ears. Beautiful handling of the incised and painted burnished surface with textile designs. A whistle atop head and with vent holes behind. A very sweet effigy. Guangala, Ecuador. 500BC-500AD. Measures 8 1/2" high
Villa Boscoreale is an ancient Roman villa located in the town of Boscoreale, about one and a half kilometers north of Pompeii, southeast of Vesuvius, in Campania, southern Italy
Bronze reclining sphinx with an elaborate braided coiffure, the braided necklace draping across her naked breasts, a small rectangular platform resting on her back. Finely detailed with serene face. Green patina with a light earthen patina. 400 BC
(3 ½" x 2 ½")
Oxford. Ashmolean Museum. Escifos beoci amb Odisseu i Bòreas en una cara i Odisseu i Circe en l'altra. S. IV aC.
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
'Red figure volute Krater'
South Italian, Greek colony in Apulia, circe 330-320 BC
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco
20181202_135200
A close up of the sculpted reliefs in the Assyria: Lion Hunts gallery of the British Museum
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