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“Face to Face” at Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum charts the history of the famed Fayum portraits. Artnet, by Tim Brinkhof April 4, 2024 A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum. […]
Artnews, January 3, 2024 Museums & Institutions Greece Offers to Loan the British Museum ‘Important Antiquities’ in Exchange for the Parthenon Marbles The Greek culture minister said the artifacts would “fill the void” left by the return of the marbles. Adam Schrader, January 2, 2024 Sections of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in […]
Nieuwe tentoonstelling over mummieportretten in het Allard Pierson Oog in oog. De mensen achter mummieportretten Is de eerste tentoonstelling over Oudegyptische mummieportretten in Nederland. Dit zijn meestal op hout geschilderde portretten die op het gezichtsgedeelte van gemummificeerde personen werden vastgezet. Voor Oog in oogzijn 38 portretten van over de hele wereld samengebracht. In Oog in Oog maak je niet […]
‘Crime’ Three Ancient Roman Coins That Were Part of a Hoard Found in the U.K. Were Mysteriously Swapped With Other, More Valuable CoinsThe three coins were found missing during an inquest into the original find.Adam Schrader, July 31, 2023 Photo Roman coin Hadrian The Lanivet Hoard included a Greek drachma dating back to the reign […]
Drinking in style with the ancient Greeks and Persians Christina Makris 13 JULY 2023 Apollo Magazine ‘Hail and drink me – yes!’ commands the inscription on a cup from the mid sixth century BC, on display in ‘Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece’ at the British Museum (until 13 August). The vessel depicts an agitated […]
‘Easily recognisable fakes’ among artefacts repatriated to Italy from the US Forged objects have been identified among the 60 antiquities returned amid much fanfare earlier this year The Art Newspaper, Gareth Harri 5 June 2023 Objects returned to Italy include a Greek dinos mixing bowl, featuring exaggerations that suggest a forgery Carabinieri for the Protection […]
Archaeology Archaeologists Have Discovered an Ancient Fort—Complete With Wooden Spikes—Built by the Romans to Protect Their Silver Mines The Romans abandoned mining efforts, but 19th-century archaeologists struck the motherlode. Sarah Cascone, February 22, 2023 vThe ancient Romans erected a fence topped with these wooden spikes in a effort to defend a silver mining operation that […]