From 2 July to 27 September, Rome hosts “Rome in Coinage. Art and Power in the History of the Eternal City”, a major multi-venue exhibition that tells more than two thousand years of Rome’s history through coinage, one of the most powerful instruments of political, economic, ideological and cultural representation developed in the Western world.
Curated by the Department for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage, VIVE – Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia, the Colosseum Archaeological Park, and the National Roman Museum, the exhibition uses coins as interpretative keys to reconstruct crucial moments in Rome’s history and culture, placing them in dialogue with ancient artworks, paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, goldsmith works, contemporary installations and testimonies of material culture.
The exhibition features more than 160 works, spanning from antiquity to the contemporary era. Two of the works on display belong to the UniCredit Art Collection: Renato Guttuso, Paesaggio romano (Villa Medici), 1946 e Giorgio de Chirico, Corazze e cocomeri. 1924
