The gradual opening of the renovated National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum is continuing with the addition of the temporary exhibitions gallery in the basement, covering 2000 square meters in total, which will host its first exhibition focusing on the portrait collection at the Louvre from November 30, ANA reports.
Entitled “Seeking immortality: The Art of the Portrait in the Collections of the Louvre” this will examine the evolution of art to depict the human face from early antiquity through centuries of art history, from the masks of the pharaohs and the Fayum portraits of Roman-era Egypt, as well as the sculpture of antiquity and progressing through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, as illustrated by 100 artifacts on loan from the Louvre’s collection.
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