The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki will host sculptures from the French Museum including three artworks of Enlightment Age sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (portraits of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot) and one of Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers de la Tour (bronze medal of Louis XV). The above mentioned sculptures will be supplemented with sculptures of Macedonian philosophers, bearing reference to the extent to which the Age of Reason was molded by Greek philosophers, and how the French movement of the 18th century inspired the Modern Greek state in return.
The Museum of Byzantine Culture will present the Reliquary of the True Cross, which was given as a present to Charlemagne. Exhibits from the collection of the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki will also be presented in a thematic exhibition examining the Cross as a symbol of faith.
A large collection of 100 drawings created from 1600 to 1800 A.D., depicting different Greek myths, will be hosted at the Telloglion Arts Foundation. This collection belongs to the Graphic Arts department of the Louvre.
The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art will present an Auguste Benson painting from 1827 entitled “After the Samothraki massacre”, sized 2.74m x 3.42m.
Last but not least, the National Museum of Modern Art will host Auguste Leloir’s “Apotheosis of Homer” from 1841, 1.47m x 1.95m.
Usefull Info
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Manoli Andronikiou 6, PO 546 21
Tel: +30 2310 830538
Fax. +30 2310 861306
E-mail: info.amth@culture.gr
Museum of Byzantine Culture
2 Stratou Avenue, Thessaloniki 546 40, Greece
P.O.B. 50047, Postcode: 54013 Thessaloniki
Tel:. +30 2313 306 400
Fax: +30 2310 838 597
e-mail:
Teloglion Foundation of Art A.U.Th
Ag. Dimitriou 159Α
546 36, Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30.2310.247.111 & +30.2310.991.610
Fax: +30.2310.99.1610
E-mail: teloglion@auth.gr
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
Egnatia 154 (on the grounds of Thessaloniki International Fair)
546 36 THESSALONIKI
Τ: 2310 240002, 2310 281212
T + F: 2310 281567
e-mail: mmcart@mmca.org.gr
State Museum of Contemporary Art
21, Kolokotroni str., Moni Lazariston
56430 Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki
tel. 2310 589140/1
fax. 2310 600123
e-mail: info@greekstatemuseum.com