Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica: Difference between revisions

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|name= Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture

|native_name= ''Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica''

|image= Palazzetto Le Roy Rome.jpg

|caption= The ''Piccola Farnesina'', seat of the museum.

|established= {{Start date|1948|df=yes}}

|type= [[Art museum]], [[Historic site]]

|website= {{URL|www.museobarracco.it}}

|location=Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 166/A 00186 [[Rome]], [[Italy]]

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|image_size=270

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==Museum==

Among the works are [[Art of Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], [[Art and architecture of Assyria|Assyrian]], and [[Phoenician art]], as well as [[Greek sculpture]]s of the [[Classical Greece|classical period]]. The 400 works of the collection are divided according to the [[civilization]] and are displayed in nine rooms, on the first and second floors, while the ground floor contains a small reception area.

[[File:Altorilievo funerario con ritratto maschile, III sec. d.C., calcare, Palmira (Siria).JPG|thumb|left|upright|A funerary relief from [[Palmyra]] in Syria.]]

===First floor===

On the first floor Egyptian works are presented in Rooms I and II. Room II includes works from [[Mesopotamia]], including [[Cuneiform script|cuneiform]] tablets of the third millennium BCE and items from [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|neo-Assyrian]] palaces dating from the ninth and seventh centuries BCE. The third room contains two important Phoenician items together with some [[Etruscan art]], while the fourth displays works from Cyprus.

[[File:Carro da parata con due personaggi, secondo quarto del V sec. a.C., calcare policromato, Amatunte (Cipro).JPG|thumb|left|A parade float from Cyprus (Room IV)]]

===Second floor===

The second floor exhibits [[Ancient Greek art|classical art]]. Room V presents original sculptures and copies from the Roman period as well as Greek sculpture of the fifth century BCE. Room VI displays copies of classical and late classical Roman work, along with funerary sculptures from Greece.

Rooms VII and VIII, show a collection of Greek and Italic [[ceramics]], and other items, starting from the time of [[Alexander the Great]]. The final room shows examples of works from public monuments of the Roman period, together with specimens of medieval art.

* [http://www.museobarracco.it/ Official website]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041424/http://www.assmuseum.it/finestre/museobar.htm "Il Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica" The Museum Volunteers Association] in Italian

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