To June 8 : The fashion designer Romeo Gigli has been given free rein to arrange this collection of 100 masterpieces from the Chinese Golden Age, a period of great changes for the country, first divided then reunified into a great political empire. With the Silk Road, it also became a cultural center open to foreign influences. The exhibition opens with some bronze chariots and horses found in a Han tomb; it documents the arrival of Buddhism with a selection of sculptures and ends with artifacts from the Tang court: earthenware sculptures to go into tombs, silver and gold objects, frescoes and paintings on stone. -- www.palazzostrozzi.org  

FLORENCE, to June 8: "Cina: Alla Corte Degli IMperatori" brings together 100 masterpieces from the Han to the Tang dynasties. This Buddha dates to the Tang dynasty. (Longmen Caves Research Institute)

Two polychrome earthenware statuettes representing foreigners also date to the Tang dynasty. (Gansu Provincial Museum)

A jug with foreign faces, probably from North India. Height: 29.5 centimeters. (Lintong Museum, Shaanxi Province)

Eastern Han Dynasty horse. (Nanjing Museum, Jiangsu Province)

A wall painting depicting a presentation of horses. Painted during the Tang Dynasty. (Zhaoling Museum, Shaanxi Province)