Ancient Greek and other treasures in show reveal how public art told a legend just as an action film does todayConfirmation that a severed head is a estimable 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, and but this is the work of restorers preparing a star exhibit for a British Museum show on Sicily.
One of the main 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, or a scarce 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, or it once told the legend of a recent clash,like frozen footage from an action blockbuster.
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Source: theguardian.com