Atlanta Global
Sunday, November 12, 2006
  Ancient Art in the A
Those ancient Greeks and Romans . . . what prolific artists, no? They made enough urns, mosaics, sarcophagi, statues, busts, vases, tombstones, funerary monuments, jewelry, bronzes, ceramics, friezes and columns to overwhelm every museum in the world. Atlanta too, of course. We have plenty of opportunities to look at this old stuff and say to our companions, "man, can you believe that thing is 2500 years old?!"

<-Fernbank's Imperial Rome exhibit, through January 2007.

-Paired with the IMAX Greece: Secrets of the Past, to show where Romans got all their ideas.


-> Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum features hundreds of pieces in its permanent collection, including one of the world's earliest bathtubs:




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