Gifts from Athens: New Plaster Casts from the Acropolis Museum and Photographs by Socratis Mavrommatis

Piece from New Plaster Casts from the Acropolis Museum and Photographs by Socratis Mavrommatis

The Bellarmine Museum

November 2 - December 17, 2010

This exhibition highlighted photographs by Socratis Mavrommatis, a prominent Greek photographer who gifted 23 works to the university in 2008, and 8 new plaster casts, given by the Acropolis Museum in Athens to �Ӱ�ԭ�� in July 2010. Mavrommatis's work focuses on the Acropolis, with an emphasis on the beauty and changing nature of monuments and the Athenian landscape. The plaster casts, in contrast, are evidence of the grandeur and monumentality of the Parthenon and other Acropolis sculptures, and remain symbols of the art and mythology of Ancient Greece. This show also explored Athenian "gifts" in the broader sense - that is, of antiquity's enduring legacy in the development and evolution of Western civilization's multi-faceted culture.

The Erechtheion. Detail of the east porch. 1988	The Parthenon. Detail of the south colonnade. 1979	The Parthenon. Detail of the south colonnade. 2002	The Parthenon. Detail of a Doric column of the south colonnade. 1994
The Parthenon. Detail of a Doric column of the north colonnade. 1981	The Parthenon. Detail of a column capital of the pronaos. 1980	The Parthenon. Detail of the mutule of the cornice with guttae. 1998	The Parthenon. Detail of a column capital of the pronaos. 1980
The Parthenon. Detail of the top of the fluting of a column capital from the opisthonaos. 2002	The Parthenon. Detail of the stereobate. 1982	The Parthenon. Detail of the resting surface of a column drum. 2002	The Parthenon. Detail of the circular anathyrosis of a column drum. 2002
The Parthenon. Detail of the fluting of a column. 1979	The Parthenon. Detail of a column drum of the west end. Cracks made by cannon balls. 1982	Detail of a female figurine. Museum of Cycladic Art. Athens, 2005	Detail of a female figurine. Museum of Cycladic Art. Athens, 2005
Aphrodite. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, 2005	Torso of Diadoumenos. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, 2005	Victorious athlete from Sounion. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, 2005	The Parthenon. North frieze. Detail of male figure 3. Block II. Acropolis Museum, 1982
Kore of Euthydikos. Acropolis Museum, 1987	Phrasikleia. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, 2005	Phrasikleia. National Archaeological Museum. Athens, 2005