Textile representing goddess Ge 4th century AD Wool, linen, tapestry-weaving Diameter: 25.5 cm Photo courtesy of Hermitage Rooms
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The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity
ENGLAND LONDON • Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, • Ongoing |
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This exhibition brings to London for the first time a collection of classical Greek, Roman and Byzantine luxury art objects from The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, including finely worked gold and silver, red figure vases and exquisite cameos. The show documents the development of art and civilisation over more than a thousand years, from 6th century BC Greece to the Middle Ages.
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