ABSTRACT
When using the expression “ancient art,” we suggest, we are in front of images that have the same function as modern or contemporary ones: images created to be exhibited and perceived by our senses, a sort of language that has to be deciphered. We shall ask ourselves whether these ancient “works of art” were created to fulfill similar functions, if they existed to be exhibited and perceived by human beings. What happens when we treat them as modern or contemporary works of art? Are we treating them correctly, or should we act in a different way? Should museums of ancient art exist?
