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EDIT: I started writing this post before Italy’s lockdown due to the Coronavirus outbreak. It was originally supposed to be the second part of this post. At that time the emergency wasn’t so big, and didn’t seem to be any real danger even in Rome. The whole country was living as usual, and no alarm had yet shaken Italy and Rome. The situation quickly changed:
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The whole planet is now living a difficult time: an unexpected virus has changed the way we interact, and social exchanges have been affected. We all needed to face the emergency somehow, even changing our daily life.
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For a long time, the Etruscans governed Rome, and by them the Romans borrowed habits and practices. Etruscans were, in fact, three of the seven legendary kings who governed Rome: the Tarquinii (Tarquin the Elder, Servius Tullius, Tarquin the Proud).
In 509 BC The last Etruscan King Tarquin the Proud was banned from Rome, Etruscan rule over the city done and the Republic began.
If the presence of the Etruscans in Rome considerably influenced the customs of the original population (especially religion, with the construction of important temples and shrines, or the construction of essential infrastructures fot the future of Rome such as Cloaca Maxima or the drainage of the Valley of the Forum), their absence also brought great changes to Roman society.
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Only few monuments of the ancient world have become a symbol. The Ara Pacis, the altar built for the Emperor Augustus to celebrate the finally achieved peace, is one of those works that became the emblem of its own era.
From its realization in 9 B.C. to the final discovery and exploitation between 1930 and 1940, its status was able to re-establish itself in recent years through several initiatives aimed at give back a timeless image.
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Jean Arp has often been seen almost exclusively as related to Dadaism. But it’s not so easy.
The relationship with the Dada movement is not only undeniable, but essential for the definition of his poetic. Arp was, in fact, a personality more complex than it might appear.
The current exhibition at the National Museum of Rome – Baths of Diocletian (until January 15, 2017) aims to shed light on the artist from Alsace, on his touching several artistic movements of the 1900s, and his coming to an entirely original work.
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In the ancient world, only few works carry a “signature“, a mark. It would allows to determine its origin or property. On the contrary, are the objects of common use those that most frequently carry symbols of ownership and allow to define its history.
The exhibition “Made in Rome. Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica” (Made in Rome. Trademarks of production and possession in ancient society) at Trajan’s Market highlights these aspects that are often overlooked by the general public, but with great importance for the archaeologists.
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