#Italy museums

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Egyptian Museum, Turin

Probably from Ptolemaic or Roman era

Turin, June 2023

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Traveling to Italy? Here are some interesting museums for you

Traveling to Italy? Here are some interesting museums for you

Italy is home to numerous world-renowned museums that offer a rich array of art, history, and culture. Below are some must-visit museums in Italy in summer: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence): Narrow courtyard between the two wings of the museum, with view toward the Arno river. The Uffizi Palace was built over the period of 1560-1581 as the offices for Cosimo I de’Medici. The Medici family was…

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Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/

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https://society6.com/art/rhapsody-in-fur

A woman sits with her vibrant and graceful cat, capturing a timeless moment of companionship and interaction.

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Isabella stewart gardner museum

(yesterday was a perfect day. 🖤)

[namedvesta]

Giovanni Dupré, “Saffo abbandonata” (𝟣𝟪𝟨𝟣)

“Mirabile è quel guardo della Saffo; quand'uno l'ha veduto una volta, e gli si ficca nell'immaginazione e non si può dimenticare.” — Augusto Conti Eng · “Admirable is that look of Sappho's; when you’ve seen it once, it sticks in your imagination and cannot be forgotten.”

[thoodleoo]

everyone shut the fuck up and look at this etruscan plate in the museo di villa giulia of a war elephant with a baby elephant walking behind it

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Rome

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Antiquarium building, Ercolano, Giovanni Gorini, Guido Barbati, Giulio De Luca, 1968-74

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Museo Delle Culture by David Chipperfield (1999) Located: Milan, Italy

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The Riace Bronzes were found in the sea off the coast of Italy in 1972. They are life sized, bearded warriors cast in the 5th century BCE. Ancient Greek bronzes rarely survive as many were later melted down. We only really know how Ancient Greek bronze sculptures looked like because the Romans were copycats.

Reggio di Calabria, Italy

[romegreeceart]

False-Door stela of Tjentet

* Giza, Western Cemetery, Mastaba of Tjentet (a royal princess)

* Old Kingdom, 4th-5th Dynasty (2543 - 2305 BCE)

* Hieroglyphs of the stela indicate offerings: "a thousand birds..."

* Limestone

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

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Museo di Castelvecchio (1958-64; 1967-75) in Verona, Italy, by Carlo Scarpa. Photo by Cemal Emden.

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An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London

More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/

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Palazzo Reale, Naples

March 2024

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ig credit: ichmiles.