Art
The Lost World of Old Europe - The Danube Valley 5000 - 3500 BC
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - Sunday, April 25, 2010
An unprecedented exhibition, The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 - 3500 BC, brings to the United States for the first time more than 250 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves, towns, and villages of Old Europe, a period of related prehistoric cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously collapsed by 3500 BC.
- Exhibition from over 20 museums in Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova features famed goddess figures, golden jewelry, exuberant art and elaborate metal ornaments and weapons from Europe's earliest civilization.
- Also on view is one of the most famous art objects from prehistoric Europe - widely known as "The Thinker" (picture above) - a strikingly modern male figure from Cernavodă, Romania.
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University
Old World/New Visions15 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
212.992.7843
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Exhibition hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Friday 11 am - 8 pm; Closed Monday and major holidays; free Admission
ISAW is an independent center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, intended to cultivate comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world.