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I just saw this exibit And it is amazing. Statues I've seen in books, usually text books and history books, or on TV about the empire, were close enough to tough. The statue of Trajan was amazing, the skirt on his armor looked like marble that was some how hand stiched, the detail is amazing it has an egal on the fledging witgh individual feathers vissible. My wife feels Octavian is a great tyrant who did awful things (mainly killing Caesarion the rightful heir), but after standing im front of the statue, she respects him now, though she still dislikes him. It it that moving.
The exibit is only in Indianapolis through January 6th, but if you have a chance to see it there or where ever it goes next, you should, it is amazing.
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Oh and fair warning, there is nothing of Julius Ceasar, also people will look at you weird if you bow to the statue of Trajan. Posts: 2332 | Registered: Jul 2003
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Sounds fantastic; wish I'd known about it sooner. I'm googling trying to find out the exhibit's touring schedule, but so far I'm not finding it, to my surprise.
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I found that it's going to be in Seattle starting Feb 21, but I can't find an actual schedule.
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Yeah, that's the best information I've been able to find too. I may need to take an emergency trip to Indianapolis on Sunday.
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quote:Exhibition Itinerary Indianapolis Museum of Art September 23, 2007–January 6, 2008 Seattle Art Museum February 21–May 11, 2008 Oklahoma City Museum of Art June 19–October 12, 2008
It was in this Teachers' Resource Packet, which also has information on the statues included and stuff and vocabulary and Roman history and all (in case any of our homeschoolers want to use it as a resource or anything; to warn you, it's a pretty big PDF, so if you don't have a very fast connection it's going to take a few minutes to load.)
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(I found it by searching "roman art, louvre, indianapolis, seattle," if anyone is interested. )
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Indeed I was! And I wasn't mocking people who would bow to a statue of Trajan, 'cause I was one of the costume geeks (my chapter NEVER wore sheets on Toga Day at the conventions. We wore costumes as authentic as I could make for $25/person-- and that was pretty authentic. We actually got a special award once. I can drape a toga three ways, depending on how tall the guy wearing it is... )
We never made it to national conventions, only regional. We were the second-smallest chapter in our region, only 7 members. The only smaller one was a group of 5 fifth-graders from a private school in Central CA. We were really tight knit and had a ton of fun.
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Damn, looks like Detroit isn't going to get a piece of the action.
No fair. We just finished a huge renovation and addition to the DIA. We should get rewarded with pretty Roman art.
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Marek, I think your wife and I were in JCL together, I'm pretty sure our latin club was an official member.
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I wish it would come to Birmingham. It sounds like a great exhibit. We have a bunch of Pompeii stuff until the end of January. Grisha, y'all should come see it before it goes. Maybe the guard won't yell at you this time. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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