This is not in ITALY. Do you know about this ? An art exhibit entitled "Roman Art from the Louvre" is traveling in the United States of America. It is now at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana through January 6, 2008. The exhibit will be at the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle Washington February 21 - May 11, 2008. The exhibit will be at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma June 19 - October 12, 2008. The exhibit consists of 184 items made by ancient Romans, including several white marble sculptures of Roman Emporers, sculptures of Jupiter and Athena and other dieties and a griffin, and mozaics made of colored marble and glass and limestone, and gold jewelry, frescoes, glass vessels, bronze lamps, and other objects dating from the first century B.C. to the early fourth century A.D. Some of the items in the exhibit were from Pompei and Herculaneum. The Louvre museum in Paris France began acquiring ancient Roman art from Italy in the 16th century. Half of the items in the exhibit were in storage in the Louvre for a long time. My source of information is the Springfield Missouri NEWS-LEADER newspaper.
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I do know this exhibit very, very well. I've been studying it as part of a class at the University of Washington and I was lucky enough to see the exhibit in Indiana. The exhibit is traveling as the Roman section of the Louvre is remodeled. It is a really interesting exhibit. One really fascinating fact about the pieces in the exhibit is that many of them have undergone extensive cleaning and study. During this process, the curators were able to discover information about the pieces that no one knew for hundreds of years like which pieces have been restored during the Renaissance and discovered one piece that had been restored and then made to look original.
If you're anywhere near the exhibit, I'd recommend visiting it. It is definitely cheaper than a plane ticket to Paris! And there are some amazing reliefs, mosaics, sculptures, and sarcophagi.