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Vacanze <strong>Roma</strong>ne<br />
la Venere capitolina a Washington<br />
The Capitoline Venus Goes to Washington<br />
La Venere Capitolina fa innamorare<br />
Washington. La scultura è<br />
la vera star della mostra "The<br />
Dream of Rome: The Eternal Masterpieces<br />
in the United States,<br />
2011-2013" presso la National Gallery<br />
of Art <strong>di</strong> Washington, inaugurata<br />
martedì 7 giugno dal sindaco<br />
Gianni Alemanno durante la visita<br />
ufficiale nella capitale degli Stati<br />
Uniti. Numerosi gli articoli della<br />
stampa americana de<strong>di</strong>cati alla<br />
bellezza classica <strong>di</strong> questo capolavoro<br />
dell'Antica <strong>Roma</strong>, dal Washington<br />
Post, al Washington<br />
Times fino all’ArtfixDaily.<br />
La Venere Capitolina, opera romana in marmo del II secolo<br />
dopo Cristo variante della celebre Afro<strong>di</strong>te <strong>di</strong> Cnido, realizzata<br />
dal noto scultore greco Prassitele intorno al 360 avanti<br />
Cristo, per la seconda volta dal 1797, quando fu requisita da<br />
Napoleone, lascia i Musei Capitolini <strong>di</strong> <strong>Roma</strong>. Ma soprattutto,<br />
per la prima volta la nota statua varca l’Oceano per approdare<br />
nel continente americano. Come ha <strong>di</strong>chiarato Earl A. Powell<br />
III, <strong>di</strong>rettore della National Gallery of Art, all’ArtfixDaily<br />
«siamo entusiasti <strong>di</strong> offrire questa opportunità unica, da una<br />
volta-nella-vita, per vedere la Venere fuori da <strong>Roma</strong>».<br />
Ubicata, non a caso, nella West Buil<strong>di</strong>ng Rotunda, progettata<br />
da John Russell Pope ispirandosi al Pantheon <strong>di</strong> <strong>Roma</strong>, la Venere<br />
Capitolina è il primo tassello <strong>di</strong> "The Dream of Rome",<br />
progetto avviato dal Sindaco <strong>di</strong> <strong>Roma</strong> per esporre capolavori<br />
senza tempo negli Stati Uniti dal 2011 al 2013, e segna l’inizio<br />
<strong>di</strong> una nuova stagione <strong>di</strong> collaborazione tra i Musei Capitolini<br />
e la National Gallery of Art.<br />
La mostra, che rimarrà aperta fino al prossimo 5 settembre,<br />
è infatti organizzata da <strong>Roma</strong> Capitale, Sovraintendenza ai<br />
Beni Culturali-Musei Capitolini, e la National Gallery of Art,<br />
con la collaborazione dei Cavalieri <strong>di</strong> Colombo e l'Ambasciata<br />
della Repubblica d'Italia a Washington.<br />
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Venere Capitolina<br />
Washington has fallen in love<br />
with the Capitoline Venus. The<br />
sculpture is the star of the exhibition<br />
‘The Dream of Rome: The Eternal Masterpieces<br />
in the United States, 2011-<br />
2013’ at the Washington National<br />
Gallery of Art, which was inaugurated<br />
on Tuesday 7 June by the Mayor<br />
Gianni Alemanno during his official<br />
visit to the US capital. A number of articles<br />
praising the classical beauty of<br />
this masterpiece of Ancient Rome<br />
have appeared in the American press,<br />
from the Washington Post, to the<br />
Washington Times and ArtfixDaily.<br />
The Capitoline Venus is a marble statue<br />
dating from the second century AD, similar to the famous<br />
Knidos Aphro<strong>di</strong>te created by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles<br />
around 360 BC. It leaves the Capitoline Museums in Rome for<br />
the second time only since 1979, when it was requisitioned<br />
by Napoleon. Above all, it is the first time that the famous<br />
statue crosses the ocean to the American continent. As Earl<br />
A. Powell III, <strong>di</strong>rector of the National Gallery of Art, declared<br />
to ArtfixDaily ‘we are eager to offer this unique, once-in-alifetime<br />
opportunity to see the Venus outside of Rome.’<br />
The Venus has been placed, for good reason, in the West Buil<strong>di</strong>ng<br />
Rotunda, designed by John Russell Pope who was inspired<br />
by the Pantheon in Rome. This is the first step in the<br />
project entitled ‘The Dream of Rome’, which the Mayor of<br />
Rome has set up to exhibit timeless masterpieces in the United<br />
States over the period 2011 to 2013. The occasion marks<br />
the start of a new phase of cooperation between the Capitoline<br />
Museums and the National Gallery of Art.<br />
The exhibition will run until 5 September and is organised by<br />
<strong>Roma</strong> Capitale, Department of Cultural Heritage – Capitoline<br />
Museums and the National Gallery of Art, with the assistance<br />
of the Knights of Columbus and the Italian Embassy<br />
in Washington.<br />
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