Wednesday 2 December 2009

Benaki Museum Tour


Marble bust of Antonis Benakis founder of the museum by Konstantinos Dimitriadis

Votive bust of a goddess with a high polos

Terracotta figurine of a himation clad male

Attic black figure lekythos with depiction of a satyr. 500 BC

Part of a female figurine with peplos, polos and elaborate jewellery. 550 BC

Mycenaean necklaces with beads of semi-precious stones, glass paste and faience. 16th-13th c BC

Male funeral portrait painted on linen. 3rd c AD

Marble votive relief of Asklepios, God of medicine. 3rd c BC

Poros grave marker for Parthena. 4th c BC

Marble group of hands, fragment of a farewell scene from a grave relief. 4th c BC

Marble grave relief. 3rd c AD

Bronze figurine of Hercules. 480 BC

Terracotta bust of Dionysos holding an egg and a wine jug. 380 BC

Attic red figure kylix. 460 BC

St Anne and the Virgin. 15th c icon by Cretan painter Angelos Akotantos

The vigin of Tenderness. Icon by Emmanuel Lambardos. 17th c

Adoration of the Magi, Icon. 16th c Ioannis Permeniatis (Venice)

17th c embroidery. Cyclades

Detail of The Last Judgment. Abraham, 1794

Greek bourgeois lady from Constantinople. 18th c

Lead water bottle. 1761

Portrait of Queen Olga

King Otto by Joseph Karl Stieler


Michele and Amy

Tammy and Gwyneth

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Claudia and Nikki

Tammy and Gwyneth in the entrance hall

Newcomers on the steps of the Benaki Museum