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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Examples of ROMAN "musea"

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Examples of ROMAN musea include

THE PORTICUS METELLI,

which in Ancient ROMA

served to showcase masterpieces
of statuary

--

and

-- THE TEMPLUM PACIS,

a temple surrounded by an open rectangular
space with porticoes, which
displayed such diverse works as

MYRON's cow

and a statue of the RIVER NILE,

sculpture looted from Greece by NERONE

and spoils plundered by TITO from the temple of GERUSALEMME.

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