When five hundred ancient Roman cultural relics "alone" came to China

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Under the epidemic, the people's exchanges between China and Italy are blocked

But this time "Italy's source

"Ancient Roman Civilization Exhibition" after 2 years of delay

Finally opened at the National Museum of China

503 Italian cultural relics drifted across the sea to China, but no Italian followed him. This is an incredible thing in the global exhibition industry.

These cultural relics come from 26 museums in Italy, of which a large number of cultural relics have been out of the country for the first time, including some extremely fragile glass, bronze pieces and sculptures, which have a history of nearly 2,000 years.

Cultural Relics Transport Company wrapped these cultural relics in Italy and then transported to Beijing. The staff of the National Museum of China carefully dismantled, dotted, and exhibited. In the meantime, Guobo and 26 Italian Museums also repeatedly communicated through hundreds of emails to complete the process of intersection and exhibition.

Agia goddess sitting statue. Photo/Guobo

Under the epidemic, the people's exchanges between China and Italy were blocked, but this time the "source of Italy -the ancient Roman civilization exhibition" was delayed in two years, and finally opened at the National Museum of China. This is the first international exhibition held in Beijing after the epidemic.

The theme of this exhibition focuses on the 4th century to the 1st century BC. This is the key time period for the gradually "Romanization" of the Italian Peninsula. The Italian Peninsula achieved political and cultural unity during this period.

40G video and hundreds of emails

If the child wants to go away, can the mother worry about it? "They also hoped that someone could come at the beginning, but it was difficult for personnel. They also trusted the National Expo, and they adopted the way of video intersections." This exhibition Chinese curator, Pan Qing, the director of the National Museum International and Art Exhibition Director Pan Qing Tell China News Weekly.

Italy and the museums of China are closely cooperating. In the past ten years, the National Museum has cooperated with Italy for seven exhibitions, and both parties know each other's ability. In 2018, Guobo cooperated with 21 museums in Italy and 17 domestic museums to jointly organize the exhibition of "No Question West East -From the Silk Road to the Renaissance", and the system showed the cultural and artistic exchanges between the 13th and 16th centuries. situation. In 2019, "Return -Italy returned to China's loss of cultural relics exhibition", exhibiting 796 smuggling cultural relics returned to China to China, showing the results of the two governments to protect cultural relics.

Italian and Beijing have 6 hours of time difference. During the point of view, it is set at 3 pm to 12pm every day. Guobo's staff worked with Italy in real time. With the cultural relics, there are thousands of pages of dot documents, which record the detailed information of each piece of cultural relics, including the characteristics of cultural relics, health, and damage. At the time of ordering, Guobo staff confirmed the status of each piece of relics when they opened the box and updated on the document.

The Three Lords of Capitini Mountain. Photo/Guobo

There are four groups of personnel daily, and cultural security personnel and translations are also present at the same time. With the iPad videos, the Italian colleagues can see each action up close. The National Museum curator He Shuyu introduced to "China News Weekly" that the state of the box was transported here, whether the seal was intact, then tore the seal, take the screws, open the box, and see the transportation of each cultural relic transportation. In the post -state, take it out on the table and check whether there are new scars and whether it is broken.

The video point is spent at least 20 % of the scene, and a total of more than 40G video files are recorded. When the condition of the cultural relics is inconsistent with the point of sub -documents, they will stop, and send a photo to send an email to the Italy to confirm, "One or two hours, they confirmed that they are willing to sign the point. Hundreds of them. "He Shuyu said.

In the face of such a tedious situation, we must insist on holding an exhibition, which stems from the special significance of this exhibition. In 2019, China and Italy decided to co -organize the China -Italian -Italian Culture and Tourism Year in 2020. One of the important contents is to jointly hold an exhibition reflecting the cultural origin of the two countries. The subsequent epidemic situation delayed China -Italy Culture and Tourism Year and eventually restarted this year. As the flagship project of the China -Italian Culture and Tourism Year, the "Source of Italy -Ancient Roman Civilization Exhibition" also on the agenda.

This exhibition was originally exhibited in Italy. It is a large exhibition organized by Italy to hold more than 20 museums across the country. This is equivalent to dozens of museums in China, holding an exhibition from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Qin Dynasty, and tried to explain the historical revolution and cultural changes.

"The most troublesome is these avatar sculptures, each time the box is opened like a blind box." Designer Deng Lu, a designer of the National Expo Show, pointed at the dozens of sculptures in the "all beings' faces" unit. The sculpture was placed compactly, showing the ancient Roman beings. There is also a couple, who must be placed together as required by the intention. Because these sculptures come from different museums, the fixed methods are different, some are attached to the bottom tray, some do not have a bottom bearing, some are fixed on the bottom tray with metal slices, and some use the metal tube to penetrate straight down. In order to make them neatly fixed on the base of Guobo, the exhibition personnel should cut out the appropriate height base based on the characteristics of each sculpture, adjust the fixed method of each sculpture, and the most troublesome sculpture has repeatedly communicated. It was installed in three days.

"Tomb of Double Warriors" funeral. Photography/Yu Guanchen made them most worried about some bronze fragments. Most of the ancient bronze wares in China are heavy and sturdy rituals, while ancient Rome's bronze is more practical. Many of them are used as samurai belts, armor, protective gear and other purposes. After thousands of years, they have become extremely fragile and some have become fragmented. Guobo staff must carefully hold them out of the box to avoid any harm.

But the accident still appeared. During the transportation, the two vortex double -handle of a snowflake stone wine tank was broken, and it had fallen off when the box was opened. Italian peers were very distressed, but could not bear to let the wine tank of the ocean fall asleep in the box, losing the opportunity to meet with Chinese audiences. After consideration, they suggested that through the video conference, they communicated online with the cultural relics restoration personnel of the National Board of Literature and Cultural Insurance, and they were finally repaired by Guobo and exhibited as planned.

"Italy's peers trust in our repair." Pan Qing said, "This successful cooperation in China, indicating that video points are based on mutual trust, and an international exhibition working model that can be adopted in the post -epidemic era."

The story that the Italians want to tell

The "Source of Italy -Ancient Roman Civilization Exhibition" is not an exhibition of "Liangbao". The selection of exhibits and the design line design are planned in accordance with academic standards, trying to talk briefly about the ins and outs of the ancient Roman civilization.

The exhibition started with a stone carving altar, and this altar also described the origin of the legendary Rome. The altar is carved with the mythical image of the mother wolf feeding twins. On the streets of Roman today, the mother wolf is the most common image of sculpture. The pattern of the Roman city emblem is also based on this myth.

According to legend, after the ancient Greeks broke through Troy, some Troy escaped and established Albarona City in Italy. At that time, the daughter of the ruler of the city of Albalona, ​​Silvia, gave birth to the next pair of twins with the God of War, and then a coup in the city. The twins were thrown into the Taibo River. Due to the will of God, they were being a mother. The wolf rescued and fed it with goat milk. When he grew up, the brothers had a lot of strength and became a leader, and decided to build a new city in the place where the mother wolf feed. But both wanted to name the new city with their own name, so a conflict occurred. Luo Musus killed Remus, named the first few letters in the name of the Latin letter R0MA -this is the city of Roman City. origin.

The altar of worship, Venus, and Silvoos. Photography/Chen Tuo

In the real history, before the 1st century BC, the Italian Peninsula was in a state of free development of various nations, of which the Roman Republic was the strongest kingdom. Until the 1st century BC -equivalent to the Western Han Dynasty in China, the Roman Republic entered the crisis time. After a series of bloody wars, the adopted Son of Yulius Caesar all unified the Italian Peninsula. Long -term unity. The unified nation of Rome has gone through the process of "Romanization" in many aspects of language, law, religious customs, lifestyle, business, and funeral ceremonies, showing a unified cultural characteristics.

And this exhibition has selected this process from diversified to unification. "This exhibition is not a gallery communication, but a gift from one country to another. So they chose a macro -historical perspective. They think they can represent the story they want to tell." This exhibition Chinese curator and the National Museum of the National Museum Pan Qing, director of international and art exhibitions, said.

The exhibition was completed under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Culture of Italy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Essence The exhibition description was written by the Italians, and the Chinese side was faithfully translated. These exhibits descriptions are very detailed. Each one is up to two or three hundred words, which often extend slightly to explain the broader historical background behind the cultural relics.

In the center of the exhibition hall, a "Tomb of the Double Warriors" in the 3rd century BC was very eye -catching. Inside the huge glass hood, there are various types of funerals layer. In the middle, there is a broken bronze armor. The prestige was no longer in the past, and the mottled bronze showed the solemn ancient meaning. At that time, people held funerals for two local warriors, and then buried them in the same large tomb. According to the local funeral customs, in order to make room for the second burial, the legacy of the first deceased will be removed with the funeral items and stacked on the corner of the tomb. The second tomb owner was portrayed as a knight, wearing a helmet with exotic mood, and the funeral items were extremely rich, including precious Kanosa vases.

Boxer in the rest. Photography/Yu Guanchen

It is worth mentioning that there is a huge funeral foot bath in front of the armor, and the bottom of the pot is painted with bright paintings. In my hometown of Italy, this foot bathtub has always been upside down, and this time Guobo specially customized a tilted bracket to tilt the pot to the front, which is more suitable for viewers to watch. The Italian side appreciates the designs of the bracket and has reservations with Chinese colleagues. After the exhibition, the bracket will be brought back to Italy.

"The patterns in the pot are very magnificent and have the representativeness of the culture of that era. We hope that the audience can see these patterns more clearly." The designer Deng Lu said, "This bracket, together with other brackets, will be used as a small heart. We are also very happy to give it to Italy. "

In the formation of ancient Roman civilization, Greek culture projected a profound impact. Before the founding of the Roman Republic in 509 BC, Greek culture was widely spread in the Mediterranean region. Subsequently, the ancient Romans accepted and adopted Greek culture in large numbers, producing Greek -Roman culture. At the beginning of the exhibition, it corresponds to the altar is a bronze sculpture from Greece -a boxer (replica) in the rest. The 1st century BC was carved from the Carved home of Athens, and is now collected in the Roman National Museum. The layout of this exhibition comes from the Italians, and they hope to show the important existence of Greek culture in ancient Rome. Another bronze sculpture -Herakles rests, earlier was carved by Greek sculpture master Lisic Person. Licatos has created 1,500 bronze carving works, but none of them stayed. The resting image of this Herracles who went to China was re -imitated by a stone carved imitation product during the Roman period. Hercules' rest, like later generations, have produced too many imitation products, and have also become the standard image of hero Helkles. In Greek mythology, Hercules had to complete 12 bitter differences in order to atone for atonement. The first was the animal skin that peeled off the giant lion. This statue shows the moment when he defeated the giant and peeled off the skin.

In the exhibition, some statues are in the form of naked exhibitions. In order to avoid being touched by children, they deliberately made a half -meter wide base, which was slightly away from the audience. "We hope to give the audience a closer look at the opportunities of these sculptures, so there is no glass cover." He Shuyi, assistant to the exhibition, said, "But there are some bronze and murals who do not dare to show naked exhibitions. Regret. "

The summer is here, and the number of national blog audiences has increased significantly, and the requirements for epidemic prevention are still everywhere. The staff of the exhibition hall holds almost a prompt card, saying "Please wear a mask correctly." They were inspected back and forth, and saw that someone took off the mask to drink water, and immediately stepped forward to remind you to wear a mask. Guobo's famous collection of drums rap figurines, and its cartoon image also put on a blue mask, becoming an ambassador for epidemic prevention. Over the past two years, several international exhibition projects that Guobo have negotiated have ended due to the epidemic. The "Ancient Roman Civilization Exhibition" opened, followed by the "Oriental Jijin -China, Japan and South Korea Ancient Bronze Exhibition" held in the National Expo. It also used the method of video points to make Japan and South Korea's ancient bronzes successfully land in China. "Now foreign exhibitions have finally opened, and they are gradually recovering." Pan Qing told China News Weekly.

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