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Volume 57, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0165-8204
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Abstract

In the nineteenth century, plaster casts of antiquities became popular in exhibitions. Copies of Roman antiquities from Belgium and the Netherlands were used in the last century for two exhibitions with a political message in Rome, the (1911) and the (1937-1938). This article examines the selection process, the political messages that were supported by using these copies, and the changes in the ‘dialogue’ between Rome and the Low Countries about these exhibitions. While Belgians and the Dutch had little interest in the first exhibition, reactions to the second were more mixed due to criticism of its fascist themes. This article thus also reflects on the power (of expression) of copies of antiquities, which seems to depend on factors in the past, present and future.

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