Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens

About this artwork

Behind a wall of glass in Kolonaki stands the museum Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris built for the art of the Cyclades: the spare marble figurines of the third millennium BC, folded-arm figures whose clean lines once startled Picasso's generation. The museum's modern glass block on Neofytou Douka, opened in 1986, holds the figurines alongside Cycladic pottery, bronzes and the tools of the islanders who carved them, with the pillared Stathatos Mansion next door carrying the temporary exhibitions. It is the essential counterpart to the islands themselves — the art the Cyclades produced before Greece had a name. Afternoon is clear sky, cloud cover about 3 percent, about 13.3°C, and dry.

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