Review: Art of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Review| August 01 2022 Review: Art of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, December 18, 2021–, https://www.mfa.org/gallery/art-of-ancient-greece-rome-and-the-byzantine-empire. Gretel Rodríguez Gretel Rodríguez Brown University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2022) 6 (3): 561–569. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gretel Rodríguez; Review: Art of Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 August 2022; 6 (3): 561–569. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2022.6.3.561 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search After a two-year reinstallation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) unveiled the new galleries housing its collection of ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art on December 18, 2021. This restructuring has presented an opportunity to rethink the nature of the collection and the manner in which it is presented to the public. The curators and museum staff embraced the task with creativity, offering a novel interpretation of this important corpus of ancient Mediterranean art.1 The result is doubtlessly a more nuanced presentation of the ancient collections, although a few conceptual and organizational choices have also left room for improvement. The exhibition, comprising five new galleries, has been enhanced by freshly designed displays, structural modifications to the building—including the installation of clerestories to bring in natural light—and the addition of digital technologies such as animations, 3-D models, and soundscapes. Visitors will now explore the arts of the ancient world... You do not currently have access to this content.