Museum of Rome Tells the Story of the City. Concise Guide.

Name: Museum of Rome Tells the Story of the City. Concise Guide.
Author: FEDERICA PIRANI [EDS.]./LEONE, ROSSELLA
ISBN: 9788849203950

FEDERICA PIRANI [EDS.]./LEONE, ROSSELLA

Language: English

Published by Roma, Gangemi Editore 2002, 2010

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Title: Museum of Rome Tells the Story of the City. Concise Guide.
Author: FEDERICA PIRANI [EDS.]./LEONE, ROSSELLA
Publisher: Roma, Gangemi Editore 2002
Publication year: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8849203950
ISBN 13: 9788849203950

The Museum of Rome With changing fortunes, marked by historical events and by the evolution of its original inspiring criteria, the complex and, in some ways, troubled history of the Museum of Rome unravelled throughout the twentieth century. On the other hand, all the difficulties and ambiguities which would characterise its journey were already implicit in the ambitious task of wanting to set up a Museum which was able to reconstruct in an exhaustive manner, into a single large fresco, the secular history of Rome, from the city of the popes to the young capital of Italy. In fact, at the time of the inauguration of the Museum of Rome in 1930, Antonio Muñoz, the then Director of Antiquities and Fine Arts of the Governorship of Rome, whilst proudly claiming responsibility for the much awaited implementation and layout of the Museum, felt the need to justify its institution in a city like Rome so richly endowed with Museums which were “already so great and famous and celebrated throughout the world; to which flock pilgrims of the ideal and people from every country; where those masterpieces are housed which all nations envy us”. In harmony with the cultural climate of his time, in which the remembrance of the profound transformation experienced by the city in becoming the capital of Italy was still fresh, he identified the conservation of the memory of the city’s life, traditions and image as the justification for the existence of the Museum of Rome. It was intended to be, according to Muñoz, “the urn of sweet nostalgias, the refuge of our dreamy soul, the oasis where we Romans will be able to recreate our spirit, among the beloved small things of the life that once was!” In effect, this first stage in the Museum’s life was entirely addressed at elegising and, at the same time, documenting, in a desire to fix and hand down to the collective imagination of post ... La descrizione continua sul sito www.gangemieditore.it

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