First Italian exhibition on ancient Greek sculptor Phidias opens in Rome

The first Italian exhibition dedicated to Phidias, the ancient Greek sculptor who supervised the construction of the Parthenon in Athens and created the Statue of Zeus at Olympia (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World), opens at the Musei Capitolini – Villa Caffarelli in Rome from November 24, 2023 to May 5, 2024. The exhibition features over 100 works from major international museums, including the British Museum, the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Museum of Olympia, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Vatican Museums, the Louvre, and Italian institutions such as the Archaeological Museum of Bologna, the Academy of Fine Arts of Ravenna, the Archaeological Museum of Naples, and the Cambellotti Archive. Highlights include original Greek fragments of the Parthenon frieze, exceptionally loaned from the Acropolis Museum and never before exhibited outside Greece, alongside Roman replicas, paintings, manuscripts, and drawings. The exhibition uses multimedia installations to reconstruct Phidias's life, career, and historical context.