"Beauty Incarnation - Han and Roman Female Cultural Relics Exhibition" Kicks off
2024年6月26日 - 5:57PM
"Beauty Incarnation - Han and Roman Female Cultural Relics
Exhibition" Kicks off
On the morning of June 15, the "Beauty Personalized - Han and Roman
Female Cultural Relics Exhibition" kicked off in the Hunan
Museum. Precious national cultural relics, such as genuine unlined
clothes of plain yarn with curving-front, are exhibited for the
first time. The exhibition will last until October 7.
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The exhibition, planned jointly by the Hunan Museum and Roman
Cultural Heritage Supervision Administration, displays more than
200 pieces/set exhibits from 19 museums, including the Hunan Museum
and Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) of Rome, Italy. Items on
show include bronze works, pottery, gold and silver ware,
glassware, textiles, jade ware, and sculpture.
The exhibition, with a focus on women and three main spheres of
their lives - their family lives, social lives and emotional
lives - presents colorful female narratives in Eastern and
Western cultures 2,000 years ago. By engaging Eastern and Western
cultural relics in an engaging and meaningful dialogue, it reveals
the cultural characteristics of the unique beauty of women from
different cultural backgrounds and their pursuit of the value of
shared aesthetics.
The unlined clothes of plain yarn with curving-front, displayed
for the first time, represent the peak of textile technology in the
Western Han Dynasty. With a weight of 48g, it is to date the
earliest example of such thin and light clothing made of undyed
plain silk with square holes and a cuff and collar decorated with
silk. It was unearthed from Tomb One at Mawangdui, or the Tomb of
Xinzui, who, according to historical records, was the wife of Li
Cang, Prime Minister of the Changsha State of the Western Han. She
lived more than 2,200 years ago, and died at around the age of
50.
Also on display for the first time is a remnant of clothing with
a pattern reading "live a long and happy life". The relics of the
clothing were from a bamboo box in the west of Mawangdui Tomb 3,
where there were "two boxes of clothes". The characters for "live a
long and happy life" are the earliest loom-woven specimens of
their kind to be found in unearthed silk fabrics.
On its first public exhibition is the "Painted Plaster Mural of
Perseus and Andromeda", a Roman treasure from Capitoline Museums.
The director of the Roman Cultural Heritage Supervision
Administration told the media, "This half-moon mural, from the
second half of the 4th century AD, depicts a mythological story of
heroes saving beauty." The 138 Roman pieces/sets of exhibits on
display are mainly from the Capitoline Museums, all exhibited in
China for the first time.
Source: Hunan Museum