The Summer Olympics start in Athens, Greece Aug. 13, but you can jump-start the celebration with a visit to “Ancient Olympia: A Photographic Odyssey,� which has its world premiere Tuesday, July 27 at the Cornell Museum of Art and History.
Running through Sept. 11, “Ancient Olympia� features 18 large-scale images of places where the Olympics originated more than 3,000 years ago in Greece, shot in glorious color, 360-degree rotary panoramic, wide-angle 120 mm, 35 mm and fish-eye formats.
A complementary exhibit contains artifacts from the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896, on loan from the Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale. Also included are a series of bookmarks featuring an Olympic panorama on one side and a descriptive history on the reverse, as well as a series of bookmarks illustrated with an Olympic panorama on one side and a descriptive history on the reverse.