A red-figure basin lid with a Dionysian scene (350-325 BC) from the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In the framework of cooperation between China and Greece, two treasures from the Greek museum are on display at the Shanghai Museum. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Masterpieces of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting go on show in the Greek capital

ATHENS - Two artists from the Shanghai Museum initiated visitors to the Acropolis Museum in Athens into the traditional Chinese arts of calligraphy and painting.

Calligrapher and exhibition designer and associate curator Yuan Qiming and painter and assistant curator of painting and calligraphy Yan Xiaojun worked before visitors, as if they were in their own private studios.

The Athens Acropolis Museum hosted a four-day workshop from March 22-25 in the context of a memorandum of cooperation signed between the two museums and the 2017 Greece-China Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation in Creative Industries.

"I think visitors are very interested in the Chinese techniques of calligraphy and painting," President of the Acropolis Museum Professor Dimitris Pantermalis told Xinhua.

In the framework of cooperation between the two museums, two treasures from Shanghai Museum are on display at the Acropolis Museum for an exhibition which will last until April 30.