The works, the collections, the multidisciplinary itineraries, the research projects: the “Incontri di Archeologia” exhibition is about to start (first appointment Thursday 26 October, 16 pm). Now in its twenty-ninth edition, it represents one of the cornerstones of the cultural programming of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
The format is now consolidated and well known to ancient art enthusiasts: the free conferences, always scheduled for Thursday at 16 pm, will be organized in the Auditorium and can also be followed live on Facebook on the MANN institutional page. As per tradition, the series of meetings is inaugurated by the Director of the Archaeological Museum, Paolo Giulierini, who comments: “We open the Archaeology Meetings by talking about the future.
In recent years, the Thursday meetings have been a precious showcase for excellence not only in the sector and in the specialist field but also for themes, meetings and engaging personalities with a high dissemination capacity, a true festival of knowledge. Thanks to the possibility of online transmission, which has taken nothing away from the sense of being a 'physical' community of the Meetings and the pleasure of meeting at the Museum, the public has expanded in recent years and the shared knowledge has become available to schools and universities and beyond. The future is therefore on the agenda of the first meeting, from the new spaces and sections already under construction to the research of the MANN, for a special inauguration of our most important exhibition that after eight years excites me and that we all want to dedicate to the memory of Valeria Sampaolo”.
November, again, will be the month dedicated to some curiosities revealed by the MANN finds: Maria Morisco will describe the musical instruments of the museum collections (November 9) and Laura Weinstein will deal with the precious statuette of the goddess Lakshmi, witness of the contacts between Rome and India (November 30). Not to be missed, some ad hoc insights, such as the one on the human figure in ancient painting (Anna Maria D'Onofrio will talk about it on November 23) and on the novelties in the Roman scriptorium (Umberto Pappalardo will deal with it on December 21). Unmissable, like every year, the performance created by Giovanni Greco with Michele Monetta and Lina Salvatore (ICRA Project): on Thursday, December 14, also thanks to the collaboration of the National Academy of Dramatic Arts "Silvio D'Amico", it will be possible to intertwine the drama of Euripides' Trojan Women with the nostalgia and passion of tango.
2024 will begin (January 18) with the conference of the Director of the Colosseum Archaeological Park, Alfonsina Russo, who will identify the mission of her institute in a conscious path of knowledge of history; for the Day of Remembrance, also mark the event of January 25 on the agenda, during which Giancarlo Lacerenza will find, in the collections of the Mann, some suggestive Jewish stories of love and death. Focus on Roman Campania with three meetings scheduled starting in February: Stefania Gigli Quilici, Laura Acampora and Angela Maria Ferroni will illustrate the political-cultural value expressed by the UNESCO candidacy of the Appian Way (February 8), Carmela Capaldi will lead a study promenade in the Roman Campania section (February 29) and Stefania Pafumi will retrace the technological path to solve the enigma of the Quadriga of Herculaneum (March 14). Another celebration of Mann's masterpieces in the conference by Bianca Ferrara and Vito Giuseppe Prillo, who will deal with Magna Graecia with particular reference to banquets and sacred meals (15 February).
In March (Thursday 7), the traditional event dedicated to the female condition with the conference by Francesca Galgano; at the end of the month (Thursday 21), Stefano De Caro will remember Valeria Sampaolo. The illicit trafficking of cultural goods will be the theme of the conference by Marialucia Giacco and Ilaria Marini (April 4), while the following week (April 11) the Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, will retrace the new research planned in the Vesuvian city.
The month will end (April 18) with an in-depth study, curated by Laura Forte, on the representation of the Gran Mosaico by the designers of the Real Museo Borbonico. Finally, there are four appointments in May: Andrea Milanese will trace the history of the Museum between 1900 and 1957 (Thursday 9); Alessandra Sperduti and Valentina Cosentino will deal with the necropolis of Santa Teresa (Thursday 16); Emanuela Santaniello, Sveva Savelli, Mariateresa Operetto, Marina Vecchi and Alessandra Spadaccini will deal with the project of protection and valorization of the Spinelli Collection, which represents both one of the richest archaeological finds of the Piana Campana, and one of the most important collections of the Mann (Thursday 23); Mariateresa Operetto, finally, will analyze the new perspectives of the restoration work (May 30). The XNUMXth edition of the Archaeology Meetings, a historic event curated by the Educational Service of the Mann, is designed and organized by Giovanni Vastano and Miriam Capobianco, in collaboration with Lucia Emilio
Article published on 21 October 2023 - 11:18
