With the cooperation of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the National Museum of Korea in Seoul has opened an exhibition on ancient Greek and Roman. The exhibition “Separate But Inseparable: Mythology and Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome” showcases 126 artifacts and artworks, including the high-profile portrait of Gaius Julius Caesar. The exhibit will run from June 15 to May 30, 2027.
The first section of the exhibition, “World of Mythology,” features 55 works. It encompasses pottery vessels and terracotta lamps adorned with images of Greek gods, marble sculptures, and bronze statuettes from the Roman era. Accompanying these items are audiovisual materials, which effectively delineate the powers and domains of the Greek gods. The exhibition also accentuates Rome’s embrace of Greek mythology and how doing so served as “the foundation for a shared worldview that has forever linked the two civilizations.”
The second section of the exhibition, titled “The Human Sphere,” displays portrait sculptures through which viewers can engross themselves in the ambiance of ancient Greece and Rome. It offers an invaluable opportunity to learn about the discrepancies between the two cultures and their mutually beneficial relationship. Additionally, it is here that people may realize Greek art profoundly influenced the development of Roman art. While Rome subjugated Greece in the second century B.C., Romans adopted many elements of Greek culture and, as a result, dispersed these elements throughout the Roman Empire.
The third section, “The Empire of Shadows,” examines Greek and Roman notions of the afterlife. Both cultures believed death was not the end of life but a transition to a different existence. In addition, their beliefs held that people could achieve eternal life by being remembered. Thus, great importance was attached to funeral rituals and tombs, which both peoples embellished and constructed near major roads to eternize the deceased through recollections of the passerby.
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With the cooperation of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the National Museum of Korea in Seoul has opened an exhibition on ancient Greek and Roman. The exhibition “Separate But Inseparable: Mythology and Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome” showcases 126 artifacts and artworks, including the high-profile portrait of Gaius Julius Caesar. The exhibit will run from June 15 to May 30, 2027.
