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| Title | Exhibit: Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples |
| Body | From http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/pompeii2/Pompeii%20and%20the%20Roman%20Villa.html Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples Installation Slideshow May 3-October 4, 2009 Los Angeles County Museum of Art “Pompeii and the Roman Villa is a well-considered, beautifully installed examination of elite Roman taste roughly two millenniums ago, as manifest in the country houses of powerful nobles along the Neapolitan coastline . . . a large but not exhausting study of one culture absorbing and remaking the artistic legacy of another, to suit its own social purposes. Rome had vanquished Greece in the sack of Corinth in 146 BC, but the Romans didn't denigrate Greek art as something foreign and inferior. Instead, they regarded it as magnificent, something worth emulating and, if possible, enhancing—a sign of Rome's own much greater power and glory in having triumphed over a major civilization.”—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2009. Learn more at http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/pompeii2/Pompeii%20and%20the%20Roman%20Villa.html . |
| Source | Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| Inputdate | 2009-05-24 09:35:56 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2009-05-24 09:35:56 |
| Expdate | 2009-10-04 00:00:00 |
| Publishdate | 2009-05-25 00:00:00 |
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