Olympism

24 April – 16 September 2024

Past

Past

Highlights

At the Heart of a Merciless Struggle

Signed ‘Euphronios, painter’
Attic red-figure calyx krater: Struggle of Herakles and Antaios
About 515–510 BC
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, G103

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Myron’s Discobolus, a Peerless Olympic Symbol

After Myron,
Discobolus
Full cast of a copy after the Greek original, in bronze, by Myron (460–450 BC)
Late 19th century
Montpellier, Musée des Moulages

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The Invention of Olympic Trophies

Bréal’s Silver Cup
First Trophy for the Marathon Race at the 1896 Olympic Games

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The Marathon or the Invention of a New Event

Émile Gilliéron 
The Arrival of the Marathon Winner: proof of postcard for the 1906 Olympic Games.
Coloured typographic proof, lithography on paper.
Athens, private collection of Émile Gaston Gilliéron

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From Mannered Grace to Liberated Dance

Signed by the potter Meidias and attributed to the Meidias Painter
Red-figure Attic hydria, detail
420–410 BC
London, The British Museum, inv. 1772,0320.30+ (Vase E224)

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