Idols

The power of the image
Idols

Idols

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Idols

Idols

Venice, Palazzo Loredan

15th September 2018 - 20th January 2019

Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Since prehistoric times, humans have felt the need to represent the human figure, through engravings and wall paintings, but also in three-dimensional form.

From those distant eras, dating back to the Paleolithic age, an immense number of figurines made from various materials and depicting human features have come down to us. Their meaning—whether symbolic, religious, documentary, an expression of metaphysical concepts, or serving a ritual or “political” function—and the identities of the figures they represent remain, to this day, a mystery.

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Presentazione

The exhibition — curated by Annie Caubet, Honorary Curator of the Musée du Louvre — offers a fascinating journey through time and space: the first attempt to draw a comparison, from East to West, of works depicting the human body, dating from 4000 to 2000 BC and spanning a vast geographic area from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indus Valley, from the shores of the Atlantic to the distant boundaries of the Far East.

On display are 100 extraordinary artifacts from a period of great transformation, when Neolithic villages gradually evolved into the urban societies of the Bronze Age.