Winter Sharing: A Glimpse of Greco-Roman Oriental Art and Artifacts from the British Museum's Collection

The British Museum houses Greco-Roman Oriental art

Glimpse No. 4

Winter sharing

Dr. Wei Dong is a professor at the University of Iowa and a state professor at Minnesota who specializes in language, culture, and ethnology, and enjoys visiting museums and art galleries around the world to explore the different dimensions and development processes of human civilization.

The British Museum, located at 44 Russell Square, New Oxford Street, London, England, is one of the top three museums in the world.

The large atrium, topped by glass, is located in the heart of the British Museum and is the largest covered square in Europe.

With a collection of 8 million cultural relics, the British Museum was built in 1823 and systematically displays the essence of cultural relics from major civilizations in the world, such as Egypt, Greece and Rome, Central Asia, West Asia, India, China and so on. Oriental artefacts, especially Chinese antiquities, have become the focus of the British Museum.

The British Museum contains more than 100,000 items from the Greek Bronze Age to the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine I. In addition to vessels, jewelry, scrolls, glass, coins, bronzes, silver, and pottery from various periods, the Museum of Ancient Greece and Rome also relies on stone buildings and stone carvings from ancient Greece.

The Greek Museum has a collection of Parthenon sculptures, also known as Elgin marbles, which are part of the carvings and architectural remnants of the Parthenon in ancient Greece and are more than 2,500 years old. There is also the famous "Nereides Monument", which comes from Santhos in southwestern Turkey in the 4th century. The sculpture of the "Three Goddesses of Fate" is also the centerpiece of the Greek Pavilion, originally located on the east pediment of the Parthenon.

The Oriental Art Museum displays more than 100,000 pieces of cultural relics from China, Japan, India and other Southeast Asian countries.

Large stone statues on Easter Island

The statues on Easter Island, made between 1000 BC and the second half of the 17th century, have about 600 stone statues scattered along the island's coastal strip.

Gilded bronze statue of Tara of Sri Lanka

In the 8th century, he came to the British Museum from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 19th century

India Statue of Shiva and the goddess of the snow-capped mountains

Indian Shiva Condor

Shiva is not only the Hindu god of destruction, but also the god of dance, dancing in a ring of fire, symbolizing the beginning and end of each cosmic cycle.

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