March, 2019 - Barakat Gallery Store

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Conventionally, it is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire (5th century AD). It ends with the dissolution of classical culture at the close of Late Antiquity (AD 300–600). The culture of the ancient Greeks, together with a cross section of influences from the Orient, prevailed throughout classical antiquity as the basis of art, philosophy, society, and educational ideals. These ideals were preserved and imitated by the Romans, and it is this “Greco-Roman” cultural foundation that has been so immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, art, and architecture of the modern world. Out of this sprang the ground-breaking art of the period, with its emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and a revolutionary blending of naturalism with idealism. “Classical Art,”…

Month: March 2019

Mar 19, 2019
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Upcoming Lecture Los Angeles: Life Along the Hudson

Barakat Gallery Los Angeles is proud to host the following lecture for the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art on Wednesday April 3rd from 6:30pm - 9:00 pm. Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family. With Guest Speaker Pieter Estersohn.

Mar 06, 2019
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Past Exhibition – Closer: Intimacy in Art across Cultures

Curated entirely from the extensive Barakat Collection, which is over a century in the making, this exhibition unites unique and extraordinary objects spread across 8,000 years of human history in order to celebrate the diverse ways humans come together; physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Month: March 2019

Upcoming Lecture Los Angeles: Life Along the Hudson

Past Exhibition – Closer: Intimacy in Art across Cultures

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