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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 />

Marco Dall'Asta<br />

060608<br />

Call Center<br />

for Tourists<br />

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 />

Marco Dall'Asta<br />

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