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Iberian Art Museum 'The Cigarralejo' Mule welcomes from today until March 31 the exhibition "Sirens, bulls, sphinxes.
Real and imaginary animals in the Ancient World ', an exhibition that will bring visitors to the animal world through history.
In Mediterranean cultures real and mythological animals generated stories for centuries to explain everything that was unknown and representations of animals became a benchmark that mixes reality with myth.
The show recreates five environments in 24 panels.
In 'The domestic space' implies that the animal subject who dominates and nature is the man, who appears as a shepherd or a fisherman, and animals provide food or clothing.
Notable pets such as dogs and birds, but were common in Greece geese, geese, ferrets and snakes, insects and rodents cleaned houses.
'Space City' shows the animal as an emblem, the owl in either Athens or the bee in Ephesus, as institutional animal involved in civic rituals, rites of passage and transit, as the introduction of youth to adulthood or funeral, to chair the transition to death.
'Wild space' represents everything that is outside the city limits, symbolized by dangerous beasts, fearsome monsters and gods, which in the old imagery are the prelude of the kingdom of death.
The 'The divine space' explains how in ancient sacred extends through the entire cosmos of nature, animals and plants.
Finally, 'imagined space' contains the relations between gods and men.
Is the space of myth, where the animal has a role as adversary or as a protector of the hero.
The traveling exhibition is organized by the Community of Madrid and the National Archaeological Museum and complete the permanent collection of 'The Cigarralejo'.
Are pieces ranging from representations of animals carved in stone to pottery, bronze and bone, and some of them will be exhibited publicly for the first time.
Source: CARM
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