The National Museum of Fine Arts is preparing to open an exhibition that brings together a series of 60 pieces of the Italian collection, which tell the story of the only Greek colony in the Apulia region, founded in the year 701 a. C, and the ancient civilizations that inhabited it.

“Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto. Greeks and other ancient civilizations of southern Italy" is the name of the exhibition that can be seen from Wednesday 7 from December, in an initiative of which the Italian Embassy in our country and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Buenos Aires are also part.

These pieces will arrive in our country for the first time and can be seen in the gallery 33 of the enclosure located on Avenida del Libertador. It is worth adding that the curator of the sample will be Eva Degl'Innocenti, Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto (MArTA), together with the researcher Lorenzo Mancini.

During the tour, the public will have the chance to see ceramic vessels, statuettes, yelmos, coins, gold jewelry, pieces of jewelry and objects related to the cult of the dead, war and theater ritual, belonging to the collections of this Italian institution, one of the most important museums of its kind in the world.

The director of Fine Arts, Andrés Duprat stated that this important exhibition came as a result of the "fruit of the virtuous collaboration between the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Italian Embassy in Argentina, the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires and the MARTA”, pointing out that the exhibition “offers an overview of the cultural production of this region of southern Italy, before the founding of the city of Taranto, when the ancient native populations politically organized the territory, and after the arrival of the Greeks, in the seventh century to. C”.

Likewise, Donatella Cannova - director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires- He reported that "the pieces in this exquisite sample are especially relevant when placed in the context of the intense historical and cultural ties that unite Argentina and Italy., because they add a new layer from which to read the relationship between two nations whose history has intersected deeply in the last two centuries”.

The exhibition will be organized into four sections:

Section I – taranto spartan colony. From the foundation to the 5th century. C.

Section II – From the “happy” age of Taranto to the Roman conquest. 4th-2nd centuries to. C.

Section III – offerings to the gods. Aspects of the sacred in the Greek Taranto.

Section IV – The indigenous people of south-eastern Italy.

The exhibition will remain open until 5 March and can be visited from Tuesday to Friday from 11 a 20 hours and on Saturdays and Sundays 10 a 20, With free entry.