The Museum of Saved Art, containing the latest treasures Italy's crack art cops have recovered from Europe and America over the last three years, reopened at the Octagonal Hall of Diocletian's Baths in Rome on Thursday.
The "new recoveries" include gentle faces of Etruscan female characters who have rested on alabaster cinerary urns for centuries; part of what has been renamed the London and New York Treasury, built for years by a well-known British antique dealer, who fled overseas; parade helmets and bronze breastplates, which still echo with blood and triumphs, recognized thanks to the photographic images of the Carabinieri database.
Or the Potnia-Theron, the goddess who tamed beasts that stands out on the antefix and that from the Hellenistic sanctuary of Ardea south of Rome arrived, passing through the black market, to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
These are just some of the wonders that are the protagonists of the Museum of Salvaged Art which has reopened to the public, with a new exhibition itinerary entitled, precisely, New Recoveries.
In all, over 100 works from the 9th century BC.
