.:. art / archaeology and geography 

Global Antiquity
November 5, 2026 through May 1st, 2027

one picture only .:. It seems that global, as an adjective, meant something different in ancient times. Our contemporary globalization has been massive, relatively fast, and driven by trends and monopolies. Two thousand years ago, instead, models and artifacts travelled in very small numbers if not one by one, and did so slowly. Yet they did.
.:. This is what this splendid exhibition proves. Think of an Indian statuette found under layers of lava in Pompeii, for instance. Since the Roman town was destroyed by an eruption in 79 BC, that statuette – or at least its style – must have travelled from India to Italy before that date. The Milanese seat of the Fondazione Prada is currently populated by spectacular artifacts which are as old as the statuette from Pompei, or nearly so. Their collection proves that cultural, artistic and physical links were established among civilizations geographically distant thousands of years ago. We marvel at beauty as well as at history, and find a diagram that summarizes themes and directions.
.:. The exhibition is the third in a series organized by Fondazione Prada in close cooperation with Salvatore Settis (Rosarno, 1941), an archaeologist and art historian who directed the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Indeed, the Foundation was opened in Milan in 2015 by the first exhibition in the sequence, which unfortunately might end.

Fondazione Prada
Largo Isarco 2
Lodi TIBB
 Open Street Map

  Wed-Mon, 10am-7pm; exhibition spaces close at 6:45pm
   Euro 15 / Euro 12
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