Museum of Roman Civilization
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The Museum of the Roman Civilization (Italian "Museo della Civiltà Romana") is a museum in Rome (Esposizione Universale Roma district), devoted to the aspects of the Ancient Roman civilization.
It was designed by the architects Pietro Ascheri, D. Bernardini and Cesare Pascoletti[1] (1939-1941). Its 59 sections illustrate the history of Roman civilization, from the origins to the 4th century, with models and reproductions, as well as original material. The premises are shared with a planetarium.
It houses, among other things:
- two famous scale models of ancient Rome by Italo Gismondi (1887-1974), derived from the Forma Urbis Romae map and integrated with archeological discoveries - one as it was in the early Republican period and one in the era of Constantine I. This model (il plastico) is at a 1:250 scale and is made of plaster. The model was begun in 1935 and completed in 1971.
- examples of late imperial and early Christian art
- a complete sequence of casts of the spiral reliefs round Trajan's Column, arranged in horizontal rows at ground level and so much easier to read!
- a reconstructed Roman library based on that in the Villa Adriana at Tivoli [1]
[edit] References
- ^ The Buildings of Europe: Rome, section 191, Christopher Woodward, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995, ISBN 0-7190-4032-9
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