H5N1 monumental marble statue of a Roman magistrate, a frieze featuring a rare depiction of woman someone gladiators, as well as a fragment of a Au wall icon from Emperor Nero’s Golden House are with the treasures inwards the British Museum’s 'Rome: City as well as Empire' exhibition, launched today at the National Museum of Australia inwards Canberra.
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The newly developed exhibition features to a greater extent than than 200 objects dating from the ninth century BCE to the sixth century CE – many of which accept never previously toured.
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| Bronze parade helmet with woman’s face, Nola, Italy, s century CE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Oinochoe (wine jug), Smyrna (modern Izmir), Turkey, 50–25 BCE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Chatelaine brooch, England, 2nd–3rd century CE, copper alloy as well as enamel [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
Central to the exhibition is a characteristic on the ‘Eternal City’ of Rome, the see of the empire from which ideas radiated – as well as proceed to radiate – globally.
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| Gold medallion of Constantius I, minted inwards Trier, Germany, 297 CE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Burial chest, in all probability from Volterra, Italy, near 100 BCE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Horse-trappings from the Esquiline Treasure, Rome, Italy, fourth century CE, silverish as well as Au gilding [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Mosaic panel, Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), Turkey, fourth century CE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
Dr Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum said, 'The stories of Rome as well as its vast empire proceed to captivate as well as intrigue people almost 3000 years afterward their foundation. This exhibition volition live on a rare chance to meet masterpieces from the Roman Empire on display inwards Australia. We are delighted to live on working i time once to a greater extent than with the National Museum, next successful collaborations inwards 2015 as well as 2016.'
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| Portrait caput resembling Cleopatra, Italy, 50–30 BCE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Statue of a Roman magistrate, Italy, 70–90 CE (head), early on s century (body) [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
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| Statue of a priestess, in all probability from Atripalda (Campania), Italy, near 25–50 CE [Credit: © The Trustees of the British Museum] |
Rome’s transformation from commonwealth to empire is entwined inwards the lives as well as loves of a cast of iconic historical figures who likewise characteristic inwards the exhibition, including Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra as well as the adopted boy of Caesar as well as offset Roman emperor, Augustus.
The exhibition volition characteristic the opulence as well as grandeur of the realm – its armed forces might, the rulers who oversaw it, the gods they worshipped as well as the diverseness of its people. An emotive marble statue of a bearded barbarian captive, a Au as well as jasper sealstone telephone depicting Mark Antony, an ancient carved marble caput of a adult woman resembling Cleopatra, a Pompeii fresco, as well as i of the finest bronze cavalry parade masks inwards existence, are roughly of the show’s highlights.
'Rome: City as well as Empire' is on exhibit inwards Canberra from 21 September 2018 to three Feb 2019.
Source: The National Museum of Commonwealth of Australia [September 26, 2018]
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