The ancient Greek ideal of ultimate beauty – known as “Kallos” – is the subject of an exhibition at Athens’ Museum of Cycladic Art that will run until 16 January 2022, in collaboration with Greece’s Ministry of Culture and supported by L’Oréal. Entitled “ΚΑLLOS. The Ultimate Beauty”, the exhibition explores the multidimensional ideal of male and female beauty, not just in body but in soul too, as it was immortalised in ancient Greek philosophy through the epic and lyrical poems of 800-600 BC and then gradually in the texts of philosophers.
The exhibition brings together 300 antiquities from 52 museums and collections, not just from around Greece but also from Italy and The Vatican (The Vatican Museum and the archaeological museums of Florence, Naples, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Syracuse and Catania, as well as the National Archaeological Park of Ostia).
The artefacts range from the 7th to the 1st century BC (that is, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period), including statues, vases, sherds (broken ceramics), mirrors, jewellery, perfume vases, toilette accessories etc, as well as antiquities of Roman times.
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