Musée National du Sport, Nice
"Corps Sportifs"
The exhibition "Sports bodies" at the National Museum of Sport in Nice highlighted the relationship between the human body and sport under a historical prism. The MACM took part in this retrospective with the loan of three exceptional pieces of Greco-Roman armory: a Corinthian helmet, an archaic Greek cuirass and a pair of Italo-Corinthian cnemides (shin guards).
MACM works on loan:
- Corinthian helmet
Ca. 650-600 BC
MMoCA167a
- Archaic Greek cuirass
Ca. 625-550 BC
MMoCA654
- Pair of Italo-Corinthian cnémis
Ca. 625-550 BC
MMoCA87 (507)