{"id":546,"date":"2015-04-16T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T05:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:07:13","slug":"noble-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Noble Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>To mark the 50th anniversary of the Israel Museum it will receive a noble gift, the Belfer Collection, which includes 350 items of glassware, sculptures and mosaics. These artifacts allow a glimpse into the lives of the nobility in the ancient world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/5748-double21.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-587 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/5748-double21.jpg\" alt=\"Israel museum exhibition Jerusalem\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Israel Museum, Jerusalem announced a transformative gift of more than 350 works of art and artifacts from antiquity by Robert and Ren\u00e9e Belfer, New York. Considered among the most significant private holdings of antiquities in the world, the Belfer Collection features hundreds of ancient Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern glass vessels\u2014 recognized as some of the most impressive specimens of their kind\u2014as well as important early examples of Greco-Roman sculpture in bronze, marble, and mosaic. Select objects from the collection will be on view at the Museum, beginning in June 2015, in a special exhibition exploring the culture of collecting and connoisseurship in ancient Rome. A Roman Villa\u2014The Belfer Collection will be a centerpiece of the Museum\u2019s 50th Anniversary celebrations, which, throughout 2015, will highlight gifts across all of the Museum\u2019s collections on the occasion of this milestone year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cThe donation of this unparalleled collection enables us to extend the rich narrative of ancient civilizations as told through the Museum\u2019s holdings in archaeology,\u201d said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Museum. \u201cOur focus in archaeology is the story of the ancient Land of Israel, and the Belfer Collection notably enhances our ability to broaden our story to the critically important history of ancient Israel\u2019s neighboring cultures and the foundational role that Greco-Roman civilization played in the history that then extends to our own time. We are profoundly grateful to the Belfers for this outstanding generosity and for the message that it sends, at the start of our 50th Anniversary year, about the worldwide support that has contributed to the growth of the Museum and its collections since its founding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/JerusalemHotels\">You Must See Our Amazing Hotels in Jerusalem &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Belfers have been prominent art world patrons and longtime supporters of the Israel Museum, and Ren\u00e9e Belfer currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the American Friends of the Israel Museum. The Belfer Collection, notable for its exceptional holdings in ancient glass, includes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2022 Approximately 300 ancient glass works from the earliest stages of glass production in the Late Bronze Age through the Islamic period, including rare, exquisitely preserved core-formed and cast vessels, early blown glass and extremely rare blown Roman glass, and sumptuous masterpieces of mold-blown and mosaic glass. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2022 Greek, Southern Italian, and Etruscan pottery, including an outstanding Attic black amphora depicting mythological scenes of the Greek heroes Heracles and Theseus with a lid, attributed to Group E and dated to circa 540 BCE. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2022 Approximately 50 Greek and Roman sculptures and reliefs, among them a 1st-century CE marble head of a youth, a Roman copy of a Greek original (5th century BCE), by the renowned sculptor Polycletus; and an important Roman bronze statue of a young god or athlete, dated to circa 50 BCE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2022 Mosaics, including a unique 2nd century CE Roman example with a bird\u2019s-eye view of a city with an amphitheater, Poseidon and Amphitrite, and two ships with sailors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWhen deciding on an ideal home for our collection, we could not think of a more fitting venue than the Israel Museum, especially for its emphasis on the foundational narrative of humankind that is so relevant to us all today,\u201d said Ren\u00e9e Belfer. \u201cOur collection represents an important chapter in the history of civilization, and we are delighted to bestow the Israel Museum with this gift on the occasion of its 50th Anniversary so that it may preserve and share the story of these ancient objects in perpetuity from Jerusalem, one of the central sites of that long history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>From June to November 2015, a selection of works from the Belfer Collection will be presented together for the first time at the Museum in a special exhibition. Curated by Dr. Silvia Rozenberg, the Rodney E. Soher Senior Curator of Classical Archaeology, and Natasha Katsenelson, Curator of Ancient Glass, A Roman Villa will feature highlights from the Belfer Collection in a display designed to illustrate the lifestyle of powerful Roman aristocrats from the 1st century BCE through the 3rd century CE, when Rome was first transformed into a major cultural and artistic center. The exhibition will examine how Rome\u2019s elite class decorated their homes with the finest examples of Greco-Roman sculpture and magnificent Hellenistic and Roman glass objects and mosaics to demonstrate their standing in public and social life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-565 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danhotels.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/5748-double.jpg\" alt=\"Shivelry attractions in Akko - Close to Haifa\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 50th anniversary of the Israel Museum it will receive a noble gift, the Belfer Collection, which 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