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New Installations of Greek Antiquities in Athenian Museums Author(S) Review: Beyond the Acropolis: New Installations of Greek Antiquities in Athenian Museums Author(s): NASSOS PAPALEXANDROU Review by: NASSOS PAPALEXANDROU Source: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 114, No. 3 (July 2010), pp. 549-556 Published by: Archaeological Institute of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25684294 Accessed: 09-06-2015 18:29 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Archaeological Institute of America is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Journal of Archaeology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.83.205.78 on Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:29:41 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions MUSEUM REVIEW Beyond the Acropolis: New Installations of Greek Antiquities in Athenian Museums NASSOS PAPALEXANDROU* New Installations of Greek and Cypriot An Leon and Melite: Daily Life inAncient Athens, in the color tiquities National Archaeological by Marina Plati and Eleni Markou. Pp. 28, Museum of Athens, Opened i March 2009, figs. 60. Museum of Cycladic Art Educational Pro Athens 9. curated by Nikos Kaltsas and Elissavet Stasin grams. Museum of Cycladic Art, 2009. opoulou (general oversight), Evangelos Vivliode ISBN 978-960-7064-82-0 (cloth). tis and Christina Avronidaki (Greek terracottas, The epoch-making inauguration of the New Acropolis terracottas), Kawadias and events Myrina Georgios Museum has overshadowed important museological Anastasia Gadolou Elissa as of (Vlastos Collection), in Athens and throughout Greece. Even the attention and is the vet Stasinopoulou and Eleni Zosi (Greekjewelry experts laymen monopolized by Acropolis glories in their new home, other museums have worked and silver vessels), Elissavet and effectively Stasinopoulou toward or their collections. New Eleni Kon modernizing expanding Christina Avronidaki vessels), museums (glass and refurbished regional collections offer alter Eleni Eleni stantinidi, Papazoglou-Manioudaki, native models for creative engagements with Greek antiq in Kourinou, and Despoina Kalesopoulou (Cypriot uities.1 Pride of place these fascinating developments, however, should be to the National Collection). given Archaeological Museum and the N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Art in Athens. The former has seven Reinstallations of Greek in the Cycladic inaugurated Antiquities new never luminous galleries of impressive artifacts displayed N.P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cy a new on before. The latter offers multisensory installation cladic Athens. Ancient Greek Art: A a new Art, ancient daily life alongside radically presentation of History in Images, Opened 1 August 2009, its classical antiquities. Nikolas Scenes From curated by Papadimitriou; national archaeological museum of athens Daily Life in Opened 1November Antiquity, new are The National Archaeological Museum's galleries curated Nikolas and 2008, by Stampolidis Yorgos located in the space occupied by the Numismatic Museum on a Tassoulas. of Greece from 1946 to 1998 the second floor of wing to added in the 1930s the east side of the original neoclassi museum Ancient Cypriot Art in the National Ar cal building of 1889 by Ernst Ziller.2 The variegated nature of the exhibited artifacts and the need to tie their chaeological Museum of Athens, Vassos by museum display harmoniously to the rest of the determined color 151. A.G. Lev Karageorghis. Pp. 151, figs. new the style and method of presentation in the galleries. entis Foundation and National Archaeological Their addition underscores the convoluted circumstances of Museum, Athens 2003. 32. ISBN 960-7037-41-3 the museum's shaping and its unique trajectory in history.3 The of these new in March 2009 (cloth). inauguration galleries concluded the ambitious project of installation begun after World War II. In recent years, the museum has witnessed Scenes from Daily Life in Antiquity, edited by the radical refurbishment and of all its Nikolas and Tassoulas. reconceptualization Stampolidis Yorgos Pp. 28, to galleries. Those dedicated Roman sculpture, Egyptian color DVD 1. Museum of figs. 75, Cycladic Art, antiquities, and the Stathatos Collection made valuable and Athens 2008. 9 (cloth). unique possessions public for the first time. To this day, the * heartfelt thanks to My go Christina Avronidaki, Evange roneia Archaeological Museum (reinstalled). 2 los Alexandra Beth Gior The current Vivliodetis, Christopoulou, Cohen, Numismatic Museum's home is the elegant gos Kawadias, Marina Plati, Nikolas Papademetriou, Nikolas Iliou Melathron, Heinrich Schliemann's neoclassical resi Elissavet Stampolidis, Stasinopoulou, and Yorgos Tassoulas. dence (1878-1889) by Ziller in downtown Athens. 3 New Museum of Patras Chai see !E.g., Archaeological (new); For early history, Karouzou 1968, xi-xx. 549 AmericanJournal ofArchaeology 114 (2010) 549-56 This content downloaded from 128.83.205.78 on Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:29:41 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 550 NASSOS PAPALEXANDROU [AJA 114 nature are an ca. of the museum's displays?an artifact itself worthy of welcomed by archaic polos goddess of 550 B.C.E. never an study (if not preservation)?has veered far from the from Tanagra (NM 4009)5?a plank with uncanny gaze. a programmatic intentions of its original curators, Christos She shares the company of proud rider, also from Tanagra Karouzos (1942-1964) and Semni Karouzou (1933-1964). (NM 4017) and a colorfulquadriga (NM 4082). Also in the a museum are some This is essentially of Greek art, mostly conceived limelight here impressive protomes of gods and art in neat categories of historical and archaeological clas goddesses from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., many to cen sification (e.g., sculpture, pottery, bronzes), presented in elegant Tanagra maidens from the fourth the second even a ca. a evolutionary trajectories of regional schools and workshops. turies B.C.E., and child of 300 B.C.E. holding The term "archaeological" in the museum's title refers to comic mask (NM 4679). Greek mythical narrative is exempli a the time span of pagan antiquity rather than the methods, fied by group of Melian reliefs from the early fifth century processes, and contexts of "archaeological" retrieval. The B.C.E. Finally, three diachronic thematic units?"Daily life," museum a thus provides panorama of Greek antiquity by "The Art of Muses," and "The World of Children"?provide art as an of a foil to the displaying intellectual creative phenomenon pe welcome regional groupings. or next rennial value, which must be studied in terms of external The gallery contains the delightful Ioannis Misthos an terracottas internal qualities that sharpen vision and understanding Collection of Hellenistic from Myrina and of of the human condition. Karouzos and Karouzou strongly terracottas illustrating "Comedy inAncient Greece" (fig. 1). dominate as believed in the pedagogical value of this conception of the Humor, gender, and Eros here nowhere else museum more to of the art and, importantly, in its capacity improve inAthens. The superb quality and typological variety new terracottas a world to life. Co social life and culture.4 The galleries complement the Myrina bring vibrant, joyful women and National Archaeological Museum's narrative inways hitherto quettish embracing, gossiping, cajoling, flirting, museums share the of unparalleled in other in Greece. lovemaking company Aphrodite, flying victories, new and assorted theatri Access to the galleries is through the gallery of Attic frolicking Erotes, sexy dancing youths, a vases of the fourth century B.C.E. First, visitors enter small cal characters. Splendidly highlighted in the middle of the two cases fine of Hel room is a terracotta statue of Eros Bound gallery with only displaying specimens chubby (NM 5080) ca. B.C.E. Next to a virtuosic of a and a lenistic pottery, most notably Hadra vases, West Slope Ware, of 100 it, group girl are Gnathia Ware, and Megarian bowls, which primarily do weightlessNike playing ephedrismos(piggyback) (NM 5083) The of teases The twowall nations and purchases by collectors. gallery Cypriot spectators. panels give only basic, diagram on on the visitors enter matic information. We learn that Misthos donated the collec antiquities is the left, and, right, a terracottas tion to the museum in after the of long sequence of galleries containing Greek 1884, shortly necropoleis had excavated French The (two rooms), the Vlastos-Serpieris Collection (two rooms), Myrina been by archaeologists.6 and an in breadth of the Who the larger hall of Greek jewelry and silver vessels, material, however, generates questions: room was Misthos? How did he obtain so How did timate of glass vessels. many examples? are visitors' the French mission's excavations? All the galleries elegantly simple, directing they escape artifacts. The The two tribute to the astute en attention to their mind-boggling plethora of following galleries pay a Vlastos' National Archaeological Museum has always been reposi trepreneur Gregory (1874-1936) collecting habit, were its social and his attitude.7 His col tory of materials that excavated
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