Majestic marble sculptures and vivid frescoes, along with mosaics, glass vessels, and bronze artifacts, vividly chronicle life at the height of Rome’s empire in Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan. The exhibition speaks to the enduring power of art as a political and social tool, showcasing how the emperor Trajan invested in art and architecture to shape civic life in the ancient Roman world.
The exhibition brings unprecedented loans—most of which have never before left Italy—to the United States from the renowned antiquities collections of the Vatican, Ostia Antica, the National Roman Museum, and the Naples National Archaeological Museum.
