An Exclusive Tour of the Museum of Cycladic Art, January 9, 2021
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- Join the UCLA SNF Center and the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, as archaeologist Metaxia Routsi takes us on an inside look into the Museum’s unparalleled collection of Cycladic art. Go behind the scenes to view figurines, vases, tools, weapons, and pottery from all phases of the distinctive Cycladic island culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age (third millennium BC).
Metaxia Routsi was born in 1973 in Munich. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina. She has participated in many systematic excavations, such as the Mycenaean cemetery in Kallithea in Patra, the Minoan Palace of Archanes in Crete,
etc. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as an archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. She has worked in many excavations of prehistoric sites, including the Early Cycladic cemetery in Chalandriani of Syros, the Neolithic settlement in Strofilas of Andros,
the Mesolithic settlement in Maroulas of Kithnos, etc. She has undertaken the study and publication of materials from an Archaic cemetery excavated by Y. Kourayos in Paros. In January 2019, she began working as a guide at the Museum of Cycladic Art.
In Jannuary 2019, I had the extraordinary and rare pleasure to see some of the Cycladic originals, shown together with their bronze age counterparts from all around the Mediterranean, in the quite comprehensive "Idols"-exhibition at the Palazzo Loredan in Venice.
Almost unknown to a broader public, especially the Cycladic sculptures do have an astonishingly 'modern' appeal and did leave - at least to me - a quite intense and lasting impression, even more so, as they had there some copies to touch, which like the materiality of the originals, adds another haptic and even emotional connection and "feeling" for the objects to the experience.
Nonetheless it's a great present to all humankind, more and more museums now open widely their doors and digitalising not only their exhibition pieces but even more, what had been hidden mostly unknown and therefore unnoticed to the world for decades and even centuries in their storage units and archives, so enabling scientists but also 'ordinary' people to get access to the truly extraordinary presents our ancestors have bequested us with.
Thanks again, it has been a real delight to at least see some "old" and "new" friends of Your wonderful collection again.
This is a fantastic presentation, so informative, clear and has really sparked me into further investigation into these beautiful objects and culture, thank you so much.
I already knew the basic notions about the Cycladic Civilzation but this neat and comprehensive recollection is very welcomed. I greatly appreciate that you didn't stop at the archeological information but gave to us the tools to see better the amazing esthetic values of the objects in the museum collection. Thanks a lot.
Be glad she isn't chewing her pork chops while talking.
Pork, are you a noticer by chance?
Love this Art. These people were on FIRE extremely passionate just think they only saw themselves as reflections in water.
Thank you so much for posting this!
Very Beautiful 🤩✨Thankyou
Thank you for an astonishing insight into the beauty and significance of Cycladic art. Carolann
Very nice. Personally, I don't see the point of repeatedly referring to 20th century art - the artifacts stand on their own, and don't need to be compared to any derivative modern style to gain value. Otherwise, a wonderful exposition.
That was great. Thank you so much. I am an art teacher and this video was really useful for me.
Fascinating!! Thank you!!!
Very touched by the beauty of it all! Thank you.
i read recently ther red colour on the small figurines was Cinnabar from iberia,
Thank you!! I enjoyed this presentation very much! Keep up the good work ❤️
We don’t worship figurines - we revere them and they make us thoughtful of the things they represent.
Never heard of this. Interesting . Thanks for the share. :O)
These are eerily similar to the Olmec figurines in South America with elongated heads
Brave, tutte e 3!
Very interesting talk starts at 7:28 after the multiple introductions.
thank you. How many gods were born there?
Why do so many smart people put their microphones in a soup can?
Woman was the pro type, clearly!
you can staet at 5:05 - before that they give onlyl institutional selfgratulation-waddle...
The presenter's remarks about Egyptian sculpture were unfortunate. Comparisons on any sort of "moral" grounds between the ancient civilizations that existed in the territory of modern nation states is not only unhelpful in understanding these cultures, but unflattering. The presenter should know better. As a final point, Egyptian stone sculpture exists not only in monumental sizes, but also life-size and even tiny. Again, the presenter surely knows this, so why make comparisons, with silly suggestions that Egyptian monumental sculpture was intended to scare the viewer. Less nationalism, more science.
27:57
Get it right
The Cyclades with Astipalea was one body of Land until 1500 bc
Proven in 1989 with irrefutable evidence
This presentation is equivalent to a kindergarten lecture
The frying pans might have had hot coals in them by placing the pan over the coals and bread was baked on the top, leaving the imprint, so you know it is your bread etc. Flatbread. Doesn't seem very practical, maybe for a ritual offering and the mark shows who offered.
The figures seem to most likely be effigies of a dead person, the folded arms are telling.
They are completely passive. I had never thought of them that way but it is fairly obvious,
reclining and in graves. Maybe we should make reproductions and re bury them with a new honoring ceremony. They would preserve better for people 3000 yrs from now to find.
Why do people that are just curious or happen to stumble on that site HAVE to be punished by over 7 minutes of academic Blabla before they come to present the art?????
Why do people come here to complain, when you can so easily use the devices to forward the video.
Apollo vs apkallu vs ab-gallu