Italy to Loan Roman Sculptures to the Indianapolis Museum of Art

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it will receive a long-term loan of several ancient sculptures from the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome in January 2011. On loan for a renewable two-year period, the objects include three life-size portrait busts and a marble funerary urn from the Vigna Codini Columbarium II, a major Roman tomb discovered in 1847. The loan of the Vigna Codini Tomb group is an example of new types of loans that the Italy-US Memorandum [...]