Ancient Greek and other treasures in show reveal how public art told a story just as an action film does today Confirmation that a severed head is a good match with an unidentified torso, and that a bent leg found on the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire actually belongs to a different body, sounds like the plot of a thriller, but this is the work of restorers preparing a star exhibit for a British Museum show on Sicily. One of the leading attractions of Sicily: Culture and Conquest, the first major British exhibition to examine the early history of the island, will be the reunited marble head and limbless body of a Greek warrior. It is now thought that the impressive statue of a stumbling soldier, a rare piece dating from 470BC, was designed to inspire and entertain people, much as a Hollywood epic might do today. Part of a 3D narrative tableau, it once told the story of a recent conflict, like frozen footage from an action blockbuster. Continue reading...
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