Rome exhibit at the Frist Center in Nashville

For Tennesseans such as myself and @Victor_Clark, and folks in the U.S. close by, the Frist Center is hosting an exhibit on ancient Rome, with coins as part of the show.

Honestly, the exhibit seems fairly modest, but most Americans can't see Roman artifacts outside of big cities, so this display in Nashville is a welcome touring exhibit.

http://fristcenter.org/calendar/detail/rome-city-and-empire

 

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That's cool for the people of Nashville.

At least I have the Getty Villa.

 

It's interesting that the Frist center is the "exclusive North American venue"

 

So close, yet so far away. It may be modest in the number of items there, but what they do have all look to be masterpieces. I'm planning to head to the Carlos Museum in Atlanta soon. They have quite a few Roman items, but no coins, as far as I know.

 

http://fristcenter.org/calendar/detail/coin-design-with-brent-oglesbee

 

it's not bad at all!

 

Oh I would love to attend that workshop!!

I clicked on another event-- jewelry workshop. They show some cheap-looking bezel set LRBs. Uhm, no thanks. http://fristcenter.org/calendar/detail/studio-workshop-roman-jewelry-with-brooke-griffith

 

Cool! I'll be coming into Nashville April 17-21 for a conference... maybe I'll have to check this place out! And let me know if anyone wants to connect for some coffee and coin share/chat (though, I won't be traveling with mine)!

 

If you come to Nashville you will want to check out the Athena Parthenos in Nashville's full scale replica of the Parthenon. At 40' tall, she's the largest indoor sculpture in the Western world, or at least she was as of a few years ago. And that's real gold she's gilded with. Photo from a Flicker feed.


https://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Parthenon.aspx

 

Pretty cool, not too many coin exhibits in the Bay Area that I can think of off hand, other than Stanford which has a nice collection of Greek coins and Romans, including Ptolemaic and Roman-era coinage of Alexandria.

 

Thanks- will be in Nashville within this time period, and hope to check it out- along with the replica Parthenon! Got to visit the Getty Villa last year- it was very nice.

 

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has more Greek than Roman but they do have a so-so statue of Septimius Severus and a decent full length of Caligula. They have a couple dozen coins on display scattered among the generally more high interest items. The museum is free and well worth the stop when you are in town.