Slave, early 3rd century AD. Black marble known as Nero antico. Musée du Louvre, Paris. © AFA/ Musée du Louvre/ Anne Chauvet 2006

INDIANAPOLIS.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art will premiere Roman Art from the Louvre, an exhibition of works from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France, which will be on view from September 23, 2007 to January 6, 2008. Featuring 184 works drawn from the Louvre’s unparalleled collection of Roman art, the exhibition includes mosaics, frescoes, terracotta statuettes, monumental sculptures, sarcophagi, marble reliefs, glass and metal vessels, and gold jewelry, most of which have never traveled to the United States. Organized thematically, the exhibition examines everyday Roman public and private life through different lenses, including religion, urbanism, war, imperial expansion, funerary practices, intellectual life, and family. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20223