Last updated on July 1st, 2023 at 12:35 pm
A new agreement between the Republic of Italy, the Sicilian Region, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art allows the Museum to borrow ancient masterpieces for long periods of time and exchange loans with the Archaeological Regional Museum “Antonino Salinas” of Palermo. The Museum and Italy’s decades-long collaboration led to the accord.
The museum’s Marina Kellen French Director, Max Hollein, said that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is honoured to deepen its long-standing collaboration with the Republic of Italy through this new agreement, which allows the museum to showcase ancient treasures with audiences and scholars in New York and Palermo.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art, Seán Hemingway, said this exchange of valuable loans signals a new age of relationship with Palermo’s Archaeological Museum, ‘Antonino Salinas’.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will exhibit “Antonino Salinas” museum items for three years. This new layout highlights Sicily’s historic cultural value and improves the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Archaic Greek province art. A temple limestone metope from 480-470 B.C., an arula from the first quarter of the 5th century B.C., and a carved marble lamp from the early 6th century B.C. are on loan. The New York University Institute of Fine Arts and the Sicilian Region have been excavating Selinus (modern-day Selinunte), an ancient Greek colony city on Sicily, since 2006. Selinus’ tomb comprises some of the oldest Greek metopes and is noteworthy for its architecture.
The Met and Italy repatriated the Euphronios Krater and 20 other objects in 2006. Since then, important Greek vases have rotated through the museum. The museum is displaying an exceptional drinking cup (L.2019.54) from the Archaeological Museum of Florence. In 2006, the Met returned sixteen Hellenistic (3rd century B.C.) silver items to Sicily. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sicilian Region would alternate guarding the Morgantina Treasure’s precious items every four years. After 2010, the items were moved to the Archaeological Museum of Aidone, near Morgantina. Award-winning special exhibitions like 2016’s Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World featured them from 2015 to 2019. Due to the importance of the silver vessels to the museum and the fragility of the rare artefacts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Italy, Sicilian Region, suspended the rotation agreement to allow the pieces to remain at the Archaeological Museum of Aidone.
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