Female Figure – 2800 BC.

Dear Commons Community,

Today Elaine and I visited the Museum of Cycladic Art that houses one of the most extensive collections of Cycladic art in the world. The most attractive creations of this culture are marble sculptures. The collection includes 3000 Cycladic, ancient Greek, and ancient Cypriot artefacts, testimonies to the civilizations that flourished in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean from the 4th millennium B.C. to approximately the 4th century A.D.

On the walk to the Museum, we came across busts of the dramatists, Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus, on one of the major avenues in Athens.

Tony

PS: Cycladic culture was a Bronze Age culture found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.

Female Figurine.  7000-3000 B.C.

Funerary Figure. 2300 B.C.

Folded Hands Depicting Farewell Scene. 470 B.C.

Child Holding a Hare. 320 B.C.

Large Pyxis (Vase with Cover.)  760 B.C.

Euripides

Sophocles

Aeschylus

This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.