The comprehensive and much talked about exhibition Defining Beauty: The Body in ancient Greek Art at the British Museum kicks off today, March 26, in London. For centuries, the ancient Greeks experimented with ways of representing the human body, both as an object of beauty and a bearer of meaning. 

The exhibition features 150 works, exploring almost 2,000 years of artistic creation, starting from the religiously significant prehistoric figurines to the apotheosis of symmetry in classical times, to the bare realism of the age of Alexander the Great (Hellenistic age).

The exhibition runs through July 5 and will feature a series of events and lectures in an attempt to decode and explain the connotations of beauty through the spectrum of ancient Greek art.

Greek News Agenda: The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece