Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A representative exhibition ‘Byzantine – Splendor and Everyday Life’

Belgrade, March 10, 2010 (Source: Blic) - A representative exhibition ‘Byzantine – Splendor and Everyday Life’ (‘Byzanz – Parch und Alltag’) at Art-Exhibition Gallery of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn shall present in the following months more than 600 exhibits from European and American museums Belgrade daily Blic reports. Among them there shall be 68 exhibits from the national museums in Belgrade and Leskovac.

The National Museum in Belgrade announced that among its exhibits there shall also be a head of Constantine the Great from Nis (4th century) and capitals from Stobi (5th-6th century). The National Museum from Leskovac shall send utility objects from the Empress’s Town from 4th to 7th century. That is considered to be as ‘an ideal city of the 6th century’ and a special part of the exhibition is dedicated to it showing thorough view of the ‘Byzantine millennium’ beginning from the year of 324 when Constantine the Great founded Constantinople until 1453 when it was conquered by the Turks.

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