Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Despite the impression we might get when visiting an archaeological museum and seeing colorless white statues, ancient Greek statues were multicolored. Artists used vivid colors to paint their sculptures, since they were copying the world around them. They sought to use color to bring their sculptures to life and to highlight certain details.

The album you are holding in your hands is a memory of the land where Athena appears to be reborn, over and over again; the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, the Dorians spring out of the deep blue waters and imposing ancient centres, religious images, cults, myths, oracles, culture and nature of this country, Greece. Greece offered material and symbolic wealth, taught science, methodology, philosophy and politics; a measure which is brimming with life's essence. Mortals, demigods and gods orchestrated enchanting myths, built brilliant cities, sanctuaries, theatres and markets, took...

Το λεύκωμα περιέχει φωτογραφίες αγαλμάτων της ελληνικής αρχαιότητας, που έχουν υποστεί κατάλληλη φωτογραφική επεξεργασία, ώστε να αναδεικνύεται πλήρως η καλλιτεχνική αξία της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλυπτικής.

Greek art, the culminating achievement of the greek spirit, is the subject of the new monumental series published by Ekdotike Athenon. The artistic creation of hellenism during its three historical periods, antiquity, byzantium and modern times, is comprehensively presented in fifteen luxurious volumes, in which elegant texts are harmoniously combined with superb illustrations. Each volume, essentially a monograph on a specific art form, closely follows its evolution through a brilliant selection of representative works, which are typical of its various phases and trends, a...

This is the first time that 237 representative object pf the Cypriote collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens have been presented both to the scholarly world and to the general public. Very few people were previously aware of the existence of the collection, so this is an event of more than just scientific value in making the collection known to a wide audience. [...] Evangelos Venizelos Former Minister of Culture