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Roman Art exhibit draws tours

November 14, 2007

By: Michael Wang <mwang@hilite.org>

Ancient Greek and Latin students here plan to visit an exhibition called “Roman Art from the Louvre” in the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), sometime during this November or December.

Junior Cassie Xu, Classics Club president and Latin III student, said, “We are kind of excited about this (trip), because it is a rare opportunity to see artwork that we could not have seen without traveling far away.”

The exhibit that is displaying Roman art from the Musée du Louvre in Paris will be open to the public up until Jan. 6, 2008, according to the IMA’s web site, www.ima-art.org. The exhibit will feature a total of 184 art works including mosaics, frescoes, terracotta statuettes, monumental sculptures, marble reliefs and glass and metal vessels.

According to Caren Rickett, Latin and Ancient Greek teacher and Classics Club sponsor, Indianapolis is the first stop on the three-city tour for the exhibit.

“Basically the exhibit originated in Paris, France. (The art works) are taken from the Louvre, and they are sent here to Indianapolis, and so the (IMA) unpacks them and displays them,” she said. “(They) will pack everything back up and send it to Seattle, and Seattle will send it to the next city, and then it will go back to France.”

This trip is inclusive to any Latin or Ancient Greek students here. As of right now, Rickett said she signed up for two different tour dates, one in November and one in December, but she is having trouble getting information from the museum and an exact date on when they will visit the Louvre exhibit. She said, “They haven’t gotten back to me on officially when we have permission to come.”

The actual trip though will take place during the afternoon. “What (we) will do is we will spend the afternoon at the exhibit, and we are having some (Classics) professors from Ball State (University) take us through,” she said. “(The) classics professors will elaborate more on the different items in the exhibition and kind of teach us a little bit more about the Romans using the art.”

Rickett will act as a chaperone and a teacher. She said that she is going let the classics faculty from Ball State do most of the teaching, but it will be more of a collaborative effort between the professors and her.

“There is no admission fee to the museum,” Rickett said. “If we go as a school tour, then the exhibit is also free, but if you go just as a regular person, then there is a fee.” If they do not go as a school tour, adult tickets will cost $12, senior tickets will cost $10, student tickets will cost $6 and children’s tickets will be free.

According to Rickett, she expects around 75 Latin and Ancient Greek students to visit this Louvre exhibit. However, for the trip to occur, at least 25 students must go. As for the actual tour, the museum requires that for every 10 students there has to be at least one chaperone.

The purpose of the trip, Rickett said, is to show students how the classical empires still influence the world today.

“I know a lot of students enjoy art so that kind of gives them more insight into classical art, so it is helpful in a lot of different ways. I think it gives you a good perspective on what the Romans were like and what they were all about.”

Xu said, “I’m really excited about this trip because during spring break I got a chance to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York to see some Roman and Greek art work,” Xu said. “The art work was everything I thought it would be, which was really cool in my opinion. I feel that this trip will allow me to compare and contrast the art from the MET to the ones at the Louvre exhibit.”

Updated by John Zhong · Filed Under News 

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