Art of Ancient Greece. Archaic and Classic periods

The exhibition in this room is dedicated to the art of the Archaic and Classic periods of Greece.

Ancient Greece and Rome were the two civilizations whose spiritual and esthetic principles were accepted by the European Renaissance culture as a touchstone. Greek and Roman art not only shaped the humanistic views of the future generations, but set out the forms of the new European art. Being unparalleled creations of human genius at all times, ancient monuments still belong to their epoch, and by reflecting its mythological and religious views they at the same time materialize the history of culture.

The development of ancient art is traditionally divided into several periods: Archaic, Classic, Hellenistic, and Roman. The exhibition of the museum halls on the 5th floor corresponds to this chronology where possible. The majority of exhibits are statues, as sculpture used to be one of the dominating types of constructive arts, often in harmonic combination with architectural forms. To get the idea of ancient painting, one may view the copies of frescos from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome (staircase and room on the 6th floor). Many of them are copies of the works by famous masters of Hellas and Rome that have not preserved until today.

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