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The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to be minor forms of Roman art, [1] although they were not considered as such at the time.
Pages in category "Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Louvre's extensive collections of Asian art were moved to the Guimet Museum in 1945. Nevertheless, the Louvre's first gallery of Islamic art opened in 1893. [60] Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt is seen with a plaster model of the Venus de Milo, [61] while visiting the Louvre with the curator Alfred Merlin on 7 October 1940.
A number of the Roman examples are in major collections, including the Centrale Montemartini [10] (discovered in the Gardens of Maecenas), Detroit Institute of Arts, [11] Metropolitan Museum of Art, [12] the Royal Ontario Museum, [13] the J. Paul Getty Museum, [14] the Louvre Museum, and the Hermitage Museum.
Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre (15 P) Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre (4 C, 11 P) Near Eastern and Middle Eastern antiquities in the Louvre (44 P)
The Diana of Versailles in the Louvre Galerie des Caryatides that was designed for it. The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize [1] marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana (Greek: Artemis) with a deer. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. [2]
The definition of the term is not always precise, and institutional definitions such as museum "Departments of Antiquities" often cover later periods, but in normal usage Gothic objects, for example, would not now be described as antiquities, though in 1700 they might well have been, as the cut-off date for antiquities has tended to retreat since the word was first found in English in 1513.