A press conference was held on December 5 for the Acropolis Museum’s new exhibition titled “Meanings” (“NoHMATA”): Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to the Present. The museum’s general director, Professor Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis, speaking about the unique works exhibited in the exhibition, their personifications and allegories, but also about the excellent relations with the British Museum, which loaned Meidias’ Hydria and seven other objects for the exhibition. Professor Stampolidis then led members of the media in attendance, including the National Herald, on a tour of the exhibition space.
The exhibition opens to the general public on December 7 and consists of an artistic Tetralogy, bringing together works from four different periods, Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance and Modern Art, with a total of 164 works by artists from Rubens in Tsarouchis, highlighting the themes of the exhibition.
“The single-word title “Meanings” (“NoHMATA”), with six of its seven letters (in Greek), capitalized and the second lowercase, refers to the meanings of its thematic plot as the personifications, symbolisms and allegories are decisive constants. which run through the exhibition like timeless threads,” noted Professor Stampolidis.
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