other Nate (Caratacos) Art
Greetings team and fans of EB!
You may have been wondering what Nate (Caratacos) was doing during his break. The answer will delight you as much as me, I think. He was working for the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the State Museums Berlin (part of the Prussian Heritage Foundation), donating artworks for an exhibition in the Pergamon Museum.
It has the Name "Zur Hölle. Eine Reise in die antike Unterwelt" (To Hell! Traveling ancient netherworld) - a name taken cum grano salis, but it also incoperates the ancient curse 'ad plutonem' (Corpus Inscriptionem Latinarum 13,4; Nr 11069).
A few pics of the opening:
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This is the entrance to the room, where the exhibition takes place. As you can see, the exhibtion also takes space outside that room.
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People gathering for the opening speeches
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from another perspective
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now entering
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you may have noticed before, but here you can see one of Nate's artworks, which has received great praise - not only by younger visitors.
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but naturally, the younglings were most attracted...
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here you can see a central piece of the exhibtion, a map of the underworld, drawn by Nate. The projector obviously needs adjustment... anyway, each character on it is enlarged for a short time (here Hades and his wife), than reduced and another character is enlarged, and so on.
Also, a nice Hermes statue here.
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it was quite well frequented at the opening, initially I tried to picture Nate's art on the left
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here it finally worked (at 19:00)
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'traditional' pieces of ancient art make the bulk of the exhibition, though. Nate's artworks help creating a guide through the exhibition.
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again the entrace. The red paint marks the exhibition's objects and a few of them are outside the main room as seen here on the far left and right.
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of course, there is a book for the exhibition, too. And again Nate contributed to it, while his services for EB and the EB project itseld are respectfully noted commended.
A fold out map and nine plates, all in full colour glory, can be found here.One example:
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Impressive, isn't it? The exhibition can be visited until March 2nd.
regards!
