Art-to-Art Palette Journal

Artifacts’ role in history

Attic Red-Figure Hydria with the Abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas, terracotta, ca. 460-450 BCE, by the Niobid Painter. Gift of Edward Perry Warren, Esq., Honorary Degree, 1926.

BRUNSWICK, ME (PNAN) – Still on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in the Walker, Rotunda, Assyrian and Boyd Galleries, through Sunday, February 5, 2023,  “Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States” uncovers a new history of the intensity and passion with which Mediterranean antiquities have long been collected by Americans, and the prominent role the ancient Mediterranean has played in the history of American cultural and political life.

This exhibition also includes a digital publication features more than 200 ancient and modern works of art with select ancient artifacts available in 3D models. See: https://bcma.bowdoin.edu/antiquity/objects.

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