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ATHENS RIVIERA JOURNAL
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H ow are Jealousy, Envy, Evil, Slander, human

passions and emotions personified? And what
about Eros (Love), Pothos (Longing), Himeros
(Desire), Hypnos (Sleep), Dream and Death?
How about heavenly bodies (stars and
planets), continents, islands, mountains and
rivers? But also institutions, cities, fairness and unfairness,
Justice and Injustice? Personified concepts and meanings
with human or animal form and allegorical stories, all placed
together and becoming visible in the new exhibition titled
‘Meanings’ (NoΗMATA) Personifications and Allegories
from Antiquity to Today, at the Acropolis Museum, starting
December 4th 2023 until April 14th 2024.
This exhibition forms a unique Tetralogy, where the greek
word NoΗΜΑ (meaning) becomes a NΗMA (thread),
and includes various artworks – statues, reliefs and vases,
coins, jewellery and icons, paintings, uniting for the first
time Antiquity with Byzantium, with Renaissance and
Modern Art.
A mix of artworks in marble, clay, metal, canvas and colour,
most of which are travelling for the first time and come
together to delight and inspire, to puzzle and to make
you think. Among the artworks that will be presented
is the painting of Rubens from the Museo del Prado
The Pain, 1898, Nikolaos Gyzis, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum. showing Cronos, the personification of Time, devouring
his children, a vase by the Meidias Painter from the British
Museum, the personified Painting of Bourdon from a
private Collection in Rome, the bronze statuette of Hypnos
from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the famous
Nike Sandalbinder from the Acropolis Museum, the mosaics
‘Meanings’ Thessaloniki, the Allegory of Divine Ascension from the
of Sea and Ocean from the Archaeological Museum of

Byzantine & Christian Museum of Athens, the sculpture
of Eros and Psyche from the Musei Capitolini in Rome,
the Seasons from the National Archaeological Museum,
(NoHMATA) alongside the Seasons of Yannis Tsarouchis from a private
Athenian Collection, the Allegory of Slander by Botticelli
and his botega, etc.
Time, Nature, Deities, Man, Institutions and Allegories, are
uniquely interwoven in the exhibition sections, leading to the
final part of the exhibition with the bronze Chimera from
400 B.C., from the Archaeological Museum of Florence. Left: Eros and Psyche, 2nd c. BC, Musei Capitolini.
Personifications An exhibition, a Chimera, like all things human! Above: Saturn Devouring his Son, 1636 – 1638, Peter Paul Rubens,
Curation: Professor Nikolaos Chr. Stampolidis and his
Museo Nacional del Prado.
and Allegories from associates at the Acropolis Museum. 
Acropolis Museum
Dionysiou Areopagitou 15
Antiquity to Today. 11742 Athens
www.theacropolismuseum.gr

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