Category Archives: Ancient art

The Roman antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Roman antiquities on the first floor, which can be accessed by the Daru staircase where the Winged Victory of Samothrace stands, the Etruscan collections (rooms 660, 662, 663), the Greek ceramics exhibited in the Campana Gallery, the terracotta figurines, the bronzes and valuables. The long Galerie Campana displays an…

The Roman antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Department of Oriental Antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Department of Oriental Antiquities of the Louvre Museum in Paris, dates from 1881 and presents an overview of early Near Eastern civilization and “first settlements”, before the arrival of Islam. The Department of Oriental Antiquities preserves objects from a region located between present-day India and the Mediterranean Sea (Turkey,…

Department of Oriental Antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Department of Egyptian Antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre is a department of the Louvre that is responsible for artifacts from the Nile civilizations which date from 4,000 BC to the 4th century. The collection, comprising over 50,000 pieces, is among the world’s largest, overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the…

Department of Egyptian Antiquities, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Ancient Greece Collection, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

After major refurbishment work, the Louvre Museum opens to the public new rooms devoted to classical and Hellenistic Greek art (-450/-430). As a result of this work, the Venus de Milo, one of the museum’s best-known works, is on the ground floor of the southwest corner of the Cour Carrée…

The Ancient Greece Collection, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Look back of Paris Biennale 2019-21, France

The Paris Biennale aims to identify and activate artistic practices that challenge the established values of art. It bring together some tens of notable participants, galleries and leading art, design and antique dealers, and high-end establishments (jewellers and watchmakers). For over six decades, La Biennale has been a landmark international…

Look back of Paris Biennale 2019-21, France

The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, California, United States

The Getty Villa is at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. One of two campuses of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and…

The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, California, United States

Choir of the Nuns, Santa Giulia museum

The choir allowed the cloistered nuns to attend the religious services held in the church of San Salvatore. The walls were covered in frescoes – with an iconographic theme inspired by the concept of salvation – painted by various artists between the 1520s and 1550s. A splendid frescoed chamber where…

Choir of the Nuns, Santa Giulia museum

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

The Romanesque chapel of Santa Maria in Solario was built in around the mid-12th century; it is square in plan and the octagonal upper portion has a closed loggia with reused Early Medieval columns and capitals. The facade of the medieval church of Santa Maria in Solario faces onto Via…

Church of Santa Maria in Solario, Santa Giulia museum

Church of San Salvatore, Santa Giulia museum

The church of San Salvatore is one of the most important surviving examples of Early Medieval religious architecture. The Lombard church of San Salvatore, erected in the mid-8th century AD, is an important example of Early Medieval religious architecture; the original building is easily distinguishable from later additions. King Desiderius…

Church of San Salvatore, Santa Giulia museum

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

In the basement of Madama Palace, at the level of the Roman foundations, there is the Medieval Lapidary, with stone sculptures and goldsmiths. Located in the heart of Turin, in what was to be the Roman Quadrilateral castrum, the complex stands on what, at the time of the ancient Roman…

Ancient origin of Casaforte Acaja, Madama Palace

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

On the ground floor, characterized by fifteenth-century rooms, there are paintings, sculptures, miniatures and precious objects from the Gothic-Renaissance period. In the room of the Torre Tesori , one of the fifteenth-century towers of the old castle, you will find some of the most important pieces of this period such…

Gothic and Renaissance Collection, Madama Palace

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

The exhibition Charlemagne goes to war, set up in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, presents for the first time in Italy the extremely rare cycle of medieval paintings of the Castle of Cruet (Val d’Isère, France), a unique testimony of 14th century painting in Savoy. The cycle represents episodes…

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The South Asia gallery houses collections from three major cultural geographic areas: Gandhara, India and Indochina. Gandhara This collection includes artifacts from the Buddhist-inspired artistic production of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century. Gandhara is the geographical term for an area between Afghanistan…

South Asia and Southeast Asia gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

The Chinese gallery now houses works of art from ancient China, dating from 3000 BC to c.900 BC, with Neolithic ceramics, sacred bronzes, and lacquered and terracotta ware that include over two hundred examples of burial art works from the Han and Tang periods. In the Chinese collection it can…

Chinese gallery, Oriental Art Museum in Turin

Temple of Hera Lacinia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

The Temple of Hera Lacinia(Italian: Tempio Hera Lacinia), or Temple of Juno Lacinia (Italian: Tempio di Giunone), otherwise known as Temple D, is a Greek temple in the Valle dei Templi, a section of the ancient city of Agrigentum (ancient Greek Akragas, modern Agrigento) in Sicily. It was built in…

Temple of Hera Lacinia, Agrigento, Valley of the Temples

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