art
noonFebruary 22, 2022 – 3:30 pm
Great turnout of the public and sold out for guided tours
Of Emanuele Fragasso
For a few weeks now, the Salinas Museum in Palermo – has welcomed a very precious piece in its collection, a statue depicting the Goddess Athena, from Greece. The statue, dating back to the 5th century BC, was delivered on February 9 and for 4 years, all visitors will be able to admire it. The ancient headless statue was made of Pentelic marble and depicts the Goddess in a supple position. In the first days of the exhibition there was an increase in visitors, certainly attracted by this new work of art. In just a few days there was a full house for the guided tours of the museum. The millenary sculpture seems to support all its weight on the right leg, with the left arm – most likely – it was holding a spear tightly. Originally the spear would have been decorated with the image of a Gorgon – probably Medusa – which has been lost over the centuries.
More artifacts are on the way
The collaboration agreement that we have signed with the Acropolis Museum in Athens – said the regional councilor for Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity Alberto Samon this morning – goes precisely in the direction of a greater strengthening of our cultural offer that it will be enriched in the coming months too from the arrival of other finds which will be exhibited in the city of Gela on the occasion of the exhibition on Ulysses and by an exhibition that will be curated by the director of the Salinas museum, Caterina Greco who will see, once again, the arrival in Sicily of significant archaeological evidence from Greece.
February 22, 2022 | 15:30
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