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Rome, Jul 20 (EFE).- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The French urban artist JR has opened a famous Renaissance palace in the center of Rome, the Palazzo Farnese, on the canal, from the embassy of his country, with an enormous optical illusion on its facade that allows one to imagine the interior of the building.FOOTAGE OF THE MURAL OF THE FRENCH ARTIST JR IN ROME.
L'Aquila (Italy), May 29 (EFE) .- (Camera: Toni Conde Molina) The baroque Palazzo Ardinghelli was severely damaged in the earthquake that struck L'Aquila (central Italy) in 2009, however, it now stands as a symbol of its "rebirth" after being restored and becoming the headquarters of the National Museum of the Arts of the XXI Century (MAXXI).FOOTAGE OF THE MUSEUM.SOUNDBITES OF BARTOLOMEO PIETROMARCHI, DIRECTOR OF MAXXI DE L'AQUILA.Translation: “There have been many examples in Italy of combining ancient and contemporary. I think this works really well, I think this sample proves it. This building is a baroque palace from the seventeenth century that today has become super-contemporary."
Tehran, Apr 5 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) With works by Picasso, Miró, Bacon, Gauguin, Rothko or Kandinsky, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art boasts the best collection of modern western art in the Middle East, although not without controversy due to their acquisition before the Islamic Revolution.The museum has recently reopened its doors to the public after almost two years closed for restorations. FOOTAGE OF THE TEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND SOUNDBITES OF HASAN NOFERESTI, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AT THE TEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART.TRANSLATION:1. "The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the top ten museums in the world as it has works by Iranian, European and American artists of different styles. More than 4,000 works are preserved in the museum's treasury as a whole."2. "It is not true that the works are in the treasury and that we do not touch them and that no one has seen them. We for different reasons, in different exhibitions, have shown a large part of the works"
Rome, Nov 10 (EFE) .- (Camera: Gonzalo Sánchez) For years the Torlonia family acquired the largest private collection of Greco-Roman marbles in the world, a treasure now exhibited in Rome's Capitoline Museums for the first time since 1940, but clouded by the pandemic, which has paralyzed this awaited sample until December.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION.
Versailles, Oct 16 (EFE) .- Ostriches, chameleons and elephants have returned this week to the Palace of Versailles in an exhibition that for the first time shows the variety of species that inhabited this ancient residential complex next to French royalty. (Camera: MARIO GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ)SHOT LIST: THE EXHIBITION "THE KING'S ANIMALS", LOCATED IN THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES.SOUND BITES: CURATOR ALEXANDRE MARAL (IN FRENCH)TRANSLATIONS:1) "The Palace of Versailles, the domain of Versailles, in general, was populated with animals. They were everywhere."2) "(Versailles) is a place where there were many pets that were inside the palace, who lived with members of the royal family and courtiers, such as dogs, cats, parrots and monkeys. Therefore, it can be said that it was a place where animals lived like kings. "3) "Animals had a political function in Versailles, since it was a place of power, so everything had a political symbolism, like the birds in the collection of Louis XIV".
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