Traditional Chinese arts introduced to visitors of Athens Acropolis Museum

Chinese painting is an art, which has a deep-rooted tradition and a unique style, employing a "dots and lines" structure and the writing brush, ink stick, silk and xuan paper as the main tools.

In the spirit of exchange, two exquisite objects from the Acropolis Museum are being exhibited at the Shanghai museum up until April 8.

The two antiquities loaned are a marble statue of a Kore (520-510 BC), one of the most beautiful and well-preserved sculptures of the Acropolis, which retains traces of its archaic colors, and a red-figure basin lid with a Dionysian scene (350-325 BC).

"We have sent to Shanghai two masterpieces from the Acropolis Museum and we sent also two conservators to present there the way the ancient Greeks worked with marble, how they made sculptures. This was realized with great success," Pantermalis said.

"In the future we prepare a major exhibition with a special theme with some very personal objects of the Emperor Qianlong (1736-96). They are now in the Forbidden City and we will present these pieces in the fall this year in the Acropolis Museum," he said.