june 04, 2014 - CLP online

Roma eterna 2,000 Years of Sculpture from the Collections Santarelli and Zeri

The new exhibition ROMA ETERNA at the Antikenmuseum Basel (Switzerland) presents over seventy sculptures from the Roman imperial era, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the ages of Baroque and Classicism.
The works come from the two Italian collections Santarelli and Zeri and are being shown for the first time in Switzerland. The epoch-spanning show highlights what tremendous influence Roman antiquity had on the artists of later centuries.

Prior to the age of electronic media, statuary was a powerful means of communication, serving politics and religion throughout antiquity and later ages.

Emperors, generals, bishops and popes made use of three-dimensional self-portraits to display their power.

Others deployed sculptures depicting mythological figures in their villas, palaces and gardens, thus ensuring that antique images remained present in the minds of the generations to come.

The exhibition ROMA ETERNA features a thrilling compilation of masterpieces from nearly two thousand years of Italian sculpture.

(more infos downloading the press release )