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The
Museum has both documentary and educational value,
in that the material on display is essentially made
up of reproductions of examples of classical archaeology
which have either been lost or destroyed or of works,
which have been pieced back together.
There
are mainly moulds of statues, busts,
inscriptions, reliefs and of life size
parts of buildings, of plastic models of monuments
and architectonic complexes of Rome
and of the provinces of the Roman Empire, as
well as evidence of the so-called "material culture"
such as furnishings, objects of domestic use and work
tools.
The
Museum is divided into 59 sections that cover a
surface area of 13,000 square meters, for a wall development
of 3 kilometers and a height of about 10 meters such
dimensions obviously make it possible to reconstruct,
completely or partly, buildings and monuments
of the ancient Roman world.
The first
fourteen rooms house an historical summary of the
origins of Rome until VI century AD, which includes
a map that illustrates the progressive expansion of
the Roman Empire, the portraits of emperors
and illustrious men including Caesar, Augustus, Claudius,
Nero, Brutus, Pompey, Cicero, and plastic models
of numerous Augustan, Trajan, Severan and Aurelian monuments.
There
are moulds of inscriptions and early Christian reliefs
and sarcophagi including that in porphyry of Constantina,
the daughter of emperor Constantine, that of
urban prefect Junius Bassus and that of st.
Ambrose on exhibit in the section dedicated to Christianity.
Among
the numerous other sections that reconstruct Roman civilization
in its varying aspects in detail, from public life to
everyday life, there are those dedicated to the military
sectors of the army and navy, that of the ports and
provinces of the empire, a section dedicated
to baths, aqueducts, nymphaea and reservoir and a section
illustrating theatres, amphitheatres, circuses and arenas
with plastic models of
the Colosseum and the Theatre
of Marcello in Rome.
The complete
series of moulds of the Trajan Column deserves
a special mention, there are reliefs that illustrate
the two military campaigns of the emperor Trajan
against the Dacians (101-102 and 105-106 AD) and the
plastic model of Rome (scale: 1:250; surface: 200 meters
squared), created by architect Italo Gismondi, which
reproduces the city as it was presented at the time
of the emperor Constantine, and it is reconstructed
on the basis of results and research and excavation
campaigns carried out over the years. It's construction
had started for the Augustan Exhibition of
the Roman World in 1937, it was completed in the
seventies and is a useful instrument in learning about
the ancient city, in an interesting comparison with
the aspects that the same presents today.
during
the 1800s, it was the object of a restoration project
in the early twentieth century conducted by architect
E. Guj, who transformed the structure and brought it
back to its original style.
The
Barracco collection includes about 380 works of
Egyptian, Assyrian, Cypriot,
Greek, Etruscan and Roman art
which was supposed to offer, as intended by the collector,
an exhaustive panorama of the development of sculpture
from the cultures that flourished in the Mediterranean
area.
The first
two rooms exhibit the Egyptian collection with
works arranged in chronological order that span a period
of time between the start of the III millennium and
the era of Roman rule.
One of
the most important finds is the funeral stele of
Nefer, some finds from the Isea campense
of the Campo Marzio: the sphinx said to be from
Hatshepsut, a Leonine protome in wood and a clepsydra
in basalt, which is one of the most beautiful examples
of its kind; Assyrian art is illustrated through
several slabs decorated in relief from Ninive
and Nimrud, these date from IX-VIII centuries
B.c.
The
Greek-Roman section is displayed on the second floor
and comprises both original attics from V and IV centuries
B.C. and Roman copies of Greek works of art,
in particular a head of ephebe and a head
of Athena from a Magna-Greek background,
three fragments of works by Myron, copies of works by
Polyclitus, etc.; for the Roman period one can admire
the fragment of mosaic from the Villa di Livia
at Prima Porta, representing two partridges sipping
water.
Information
and Addresses
Address
Corso Vittorio Emanuele 11, 166/a; room on ground floor
where disabled may perform a virtual tour of the museum
Visiting
Hours Every day from 9.00 am to ].00 pm; Dec. 24
and 31 9.00 am - 2.00 pm
Closed
Monday, Dec. 25, Jan. 1, May 1 Telephone 06 82059127;
Price
€ 3,00; concessions € 1,50
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