September 23, 2007 - January 6, 2008

The IMA was the first U.S. venue for Roman Art from the Louvre, an exhibition of original works from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Musée du Louvre, the traveling exhibition represented the largest number of loaned pieces from the Louvre for any single show. Roman Art from the Louvre featured approximately 180 prime examples of Roman art drawn from the Louvre’s unsurpassed collection. The exhibition examined aspects of Roman art—works made between the first century BC and the early fourth century AD—in artistic, historical and socio-cultural contexts. The objects, which had never before been shown in any exhibition in the United States, included mosaics, frescoes, terracotta statuettes, monumental sculptures, marble reliefs and glass and metal vessels.