Rome, open city.
The Louvre-Lens offers a complete retrospective on Roman civilization, from the Republican era (2nd century BC) to the end of the High Roman Empire (around 300 AD).
A vast period, therefore, beautifully retraced throughout the rooms thanks to the presentation of some 400 works from the fund of the Parisian institution (whose department is being temporarily reorganized), the National Library of France and the Museum of Archeology national of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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The whole, unprecedented in this form, shines with the richness of the superb lots unveiled to the public (statues, reliefs, bottles, vases, pillars, mosaics, sarcophagi, frescoes, etc.) and competes without difficulty with the offer of Italian museums in this domain.
The particularly bright scenography appeals as much as the themes chosen during the tour.
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Regional context obliges, the curators of the event, Cécile Giroire and Martin Szewczyk, have at the same time relied on the remains of the cities of Gaul Belgium from the museums of Hauts-de-France.
A one-of-a-kind collection…
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