Italian Culture Minister Sandro Bondi and his counterpart from China, Tsai has signed an agreement on cultural cooperation, under which China will receive exhibition space at the heart of Rome and the Italian showroom opens in Beijing

National Treasures of Italy and China: a fresco from Pompeii "Bellerophon and Athena (left) and a glazed tower during the Han Dynasty (right) Source: theartnewspaper.com

Italian Culture Minister Sandro Bondi (Sandro Bondi) and his counterpart from China, Cai Y (Cai Wu) signed an agreement on cultural cooperation under which China will receive exhibition space at the heart of Rome and the Italian showroom, in turn, will open in Beijing.

the next five years, 600 square meters of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome will be given at the exhibition, organized by the PRC. "This place has become a public museum of Chinese culture", - said Sandro Bondi.

first Chinese exhibition in this museum - "Two of the empire: the Eagle and the Dragon" - opened in November. Curators wanted to compare the Roman and Chinese empires, bringing together 450 items in II. BC. Oe. - IV in. Mr. er. Before moving to the Palazzo Venezia this exhibition showing at the Palazzo Reale in Milan , 1936 Museum of China provided the exhibits to it, which marked the beginning of the year of China in Italy.

Italian exposition opens in Beijing in June 2011: five years, an entire wing of the National Museum of China (Beijing) will be given to the Mediterranean treasures. The representative of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage of Italy Mario Reske (Mario Resca) said in an interview with II Giornale dell'Arte: «We will have 1,000 square feet inside the museum, and in the next 100 years, this place [in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. - Theartnewspaper.] become much more popular than Fifth Avenue, New York or London. " At a time when the Italian exhibition will travel to China, in the main museum of China will end reconstruction started in 2007. According to the draft next year, the National Museum of China will borrow as much 192,000 square meters.

As reported by Chinese media, their government was interested in the contract, as in the collections of museums in China quite a few non-Chinese art . The agreement also provides that the parties will prevent the illegal excavation and sale of artifacts, increase scientific exchanges, joint exhibitions and contribute to long-term lease exhibits.

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru