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Monday, 04/03/2024 01:09

Hà Nội to host exhibition highlighting Italian mosaics

HÀ NỘI – Hà Nội will be the first Asian city to host the multimedia exhibition “MOSAICO. Italian code of a timeless art” which showcases ancient mosaics. 

Corteo di Teodora (Procession of Theodora) is exhibited at the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Photo courtesy of Religion of the Diocese of Ravenna

The multimedia exhibition was conceived and realised by Magister Art and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Embassy of Italy in Hà Nội.

The exhibition itinerary is conceived as a 2000-year-long journey to discover the images, symbols, techniques, and materials of some of the most famous and iconic Italian mosaics.

Through an immersive multimedia experience, visitors will be able to admire, along a route in stages, the most evocative mosaics of Rome, Pompeii, Aquileia, Ravenna, Palermo, Monreale, Piazza Armerina and Baia.

Battaglia di Isso (Battle of Issus) is exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in Naples, Italy. Photo courtesy of Ministry
of Culture - National Archaeological Museum of Naples

The exhibition will be open to visitors from 8 March to 7 April 2024, from 8.30am to 5.30pm at the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyễn Văn Huyên Street, Cầu Giấy District, Hà Nội. – VNS


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