Life among Ruins
The exhibition "Life among ruins" stories from different periods including Byzantine, Ottoman and Early Modern in the Eastern Mediterranean.Actually, we can only get to know about the lives of people of different social and ethnic through the pictures of the ruined remains of an earlier past. "This museum investigates the impact of the past and its ancient ruins on people's lives,dreams and ideals in later periods.
The exhibition is divided in two parts:
1. A photographic exhibition.
"It features photos of the 1930’s to 1950’s from excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ascsa) in the Athenian Agora, is hosted at the Allard Pierson Museum at Amsterdam (nl) between 21.10.2011 and 29.01.2012."
2. An online exhibition
It features drawings, sketches and maps of European travellers, who visited the Eastern Mediterranean between the 17th and 19th centuries.
In this part, we can see the profiles of these wealthy and educated travelers who wrote journals and letters about the places that they visited. These travelers' recordings were shaped by the circumstances of their time which remain important testimonies of antiquities and ancient art.There are also pictures people 's everyday life among ruins which can impress you with the scene that you can't imagine.
"These illustrations come from printed books and maps of the 'Bijzondere Collecties' of the University of Amsterdam (nl). These images provide invaluable information on the antiquities themselves as well as on daily life in pre-modern Greece and Turkey."
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