Meanings: Personification and Allegories, from Antiquity to Today

Step into a world where art transcends time and meaning takes tangible form at the Acropolis Museum's latest exhibition NoHMATA (Meanings): Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to Today. This one-of-a-kind exhibition invites visitors to explore the nature of Eros (Love), Pothos (Longing), Himeros (Desire), Hypnos (Sleep), dream and death alongside personified celestial bodies, nature, continents, cities and emotions.

The exhibition weaves a Tetralogy, transforming the Greek word NoΗΜΑ (meaning) into NΗMA (thread) that unites Antiquity with Byzantium, Renaissance, and Modern Art. A diverse array of artworks – statues, vases, coins, jewellery, icons, and paintings – in marble, clay, metal and canvas converge for the first time, promising to amaze, stimulate and provoke thought.

Admire, among other works of art, masterpieces such as Rubens' painting of Cronus, the personification of Time devouring his children, on loan from the Prado Museum, the bronze statue of Hypnos from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a vase by Meidias from the British Museum and the sculpture of Eros and Psyche from the Musei Capitolini in Rome, each telling a story about Time, Nature, Deities, Man, Institutions, and Allegories. The grand finale, symbolising the multifaceted nature of humanity, is the bronze Chimera from the Archaeological Museum of Florence.