Fact Sheet

  • The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is the final North American venue for Roman Art from the Louvre.
  • The exhibit runs sixteen weeks, June 19 through October 12, 2008.
  • It will occupy the Museum’s ground floor special exhibition gallery and the eight second floor galleries of the Museum.
  • The exhibit features 184 ancient artifacts, some weighing more than 6,000 pounds.
  • Pieces date from the early first century B.C. to the 6th century A.D.
  • Included are a variety of monumental sculptures, sarcophagi, marble busts and reliefs, bronze and terracotta statuettes and implements, jewelry, glass and metal cups and vessels, mosaics, fresco paintings and a cache of more than one hundred major silver pieces from Pompeii.
  • Roman Art from the Louvre traces the genealogy of the four main Roman dynasties: the Julio-Claudians, the Antonines, the Severans, and the family of Constantine.
  • Portraits of the emperors Augustus, Marcus Aurelius, Septimus Severus, and Maxentius are included.
  • The exhibit is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Musée du Louvre.
  • Admission: $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, Museum members receive free admission.
  • Groups tours are available for 15 or more people and must be scheduled three weeks in advance by calling (405) 236-3100, ext. 207. Group admission is $10 per person.
  • The fully illustrated 280-page exhibition catalogue is published by the American Federation of Arts in association with Hudson Hills Press. It is available in the Museum Store. Price: $50 nonmembers/$45 members