A replica of the Triumphal
Arch of Palmyra has made its way back to London. The world was first introduced
to this arch on April 19, 2016, in London’s Trafalgar Square. The arch has been
proclaimed a symbol of peace and paraded throughout the world. Now, a new smaller replica will permanently be
displayed in London's Victoria & Albert Museum at their Cast Court exhibit
which showcases other famous replicas.
December 1, 2018 – A new
smaller replica of the Palmyra Triumphal Arch Unveiled at Cast Court exhibit @ Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and
Albert Museum is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance located in South Kensington, London. Arch returns to LONDON!
Very proud that scale
replica of IDA's Palmyra Arch has found a permanent home
The 2018 scaled down
replica is a 30% scale reproduction of the 2016 arch first displayed at
Trafalgar Square on April 19, 2016. https://twitter.com/DigiArchaeo
Note: The
2016 version is still available at an undisclosed location!!
Palmyra
Arch replica displayed in:
• London – Trafalgar Square – April 19-21, 2016
• Manhattan/NYC – City Hall Park – September 19, 2016
• Dubai - unveiled at the World Government Summit at Madinat
Jumeirah - Feb. 12-14, 2017
• Florence, Italy - Palazzo della Signoria - March 27-April 27, 2017
- Palazzo Vecchio during the G7
Cultural Summit
• Arona, Italy - Museum of Archaeology – April 29-July 30, 2017
• Washington,
D.C. – National Mall - September 26—30, 2018
•
London – Victoria & Albert
Museum (30% scale version) – Dec. 1, 2018 -permanent
• ??? Palmyra, Syria – TBA ????
At a gala celebration held
on 27 November, 2018, London's Victoria & Albert Museum unveiled a scale
replica of the IDA's reconstruction of Palmyra's Triumphal Arch. The replica
arch will be on permanent display in the V&A's famous Cast Court alongside
significant historical reconstructions dating back to the mid-19th century.
Read about the installation
in The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and on theartnewspaper.com
The Victoria and
Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the
world's largest museum of decorative arts
and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects.[3] It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert.
The V&A is located
in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions with which he was associated. These include
the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Royal Albert
Hall and Imperial College London. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by
the Department for Culture, Media and
Sport. Like other national British museums, entrance to the museum
has been free since 2001.
Take a tour of Europe’s most exquisite monuments
The new display continues
the trend of unveiling during Biblical Feast Days with the opening of the
exhibit the day before Hanukkah begins.
Palmyra Arch replica displayed during Biblical Feast Days
and celestial events:
London, UK – Passover – April 19-21, 2016
Manhattan/NYC – Feast
of Tabernacles/Succoth – September
19-23, 2016
Dubai, UAE – 2
days after Penumbral Lunar Eclipse -
February 12-14, 2017
Florence, Italy – Through Passover - March
27-April 27, 2017
Arona, Italy – Through
Pentecost – April 29-July 30 –
extended to Sept 30, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Feast of Tabernacles/Succoth – September 26—30, 2018
London, UK – Feast of
Dedication/Hanukkah – Dec.1, 2018 (Dec.
2-10, 2018 Hanukkah)
?? Palmyra, Syria (Paris was also a suggested
site)??? – TBA
Dec. 1 is 9-22 on the biblical calendar
Parashah #9 Scripture
Readings Va-Yeshev (And He Settled)
Genesis 37:1-40:23
Amos 2:6-3:8
V&A to unveil
leading collection of sculptural casts in restored gallery
Cast Courts were
created in the 19th century and comprise finest architectural treasures
An entirely new gallery will look at
modern digital equivalents of 19th century plaster cast technology, such as a
scaled-down 3D printed copy of the arch at Palmyra, Syria, destroyed by Isis in
2016.
The V&A has
acknowledged the role of philanthropic foundations in the project by renaming
two of the historic galleries. The West Court will now be called the Ruddock
Family Cast Court in a nod to the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts. The Central
Gallery will become the Chitra Nirmal Sethia Gallery, in recognition of funding
support from the N. Sethia Foundation.
The Cast Courts at the
V&A will reopen on December 1. Entrance is free.
vam.ac.uk / https://twitter.com/V_and_A
- near the Palmyra
arch display is
Michelangelo / David /
Florence's Gates
of Paradise | Ghiberti,
Lorenzo | V&A Search the Collections
Electrotype,
impressions of 'Gates of Paradise' doors, from the Baptistry
of Florence Cathedral, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, ... Museum Number REPRO.1867-44. ... These are electrotype doors cast by Messrs Franchi & Sons in London in about 1867.
The first door,
executed between 1403 and 1424, was decorated with reliefs containing scenes
from the New Testament. For the second door, in which the scenes were to be
drawn from the Old Testament,
Staff and Snake - https://www.florenceinferno.com/gates-of-paradise/
It was long believed
that the Baptistery was originally a Roman temple dedicated to Mars
2019 Arch Update
–
V&A Permanent Display (mini arch) – Paris & Getty ongoing exhibits
Current Palmyra artifact exhibits:
Dec. 1, 2018 - Permanent @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Palmyra Triumphal Arch smaller replica at Cast Court exhibit (see above)
Oct. 10, 2018 - Feb. 10, 2019 - Arab World Institute, Paris
April 18, 2018–May 27, 2019 @ Getty Villa Museum - Bel-Air, Los Angeles
Palmyra: Loss and Remembrance
Palmyra, Plato and Play Doh: Getty Plans New Shows for Renovated Villa
That gallery's first show, a three-year exhibition, will feature funerary relief portraits from Palmyra,
Feb 2, 2019 - The Future of Palmyra in the Digital Age @ GETTY VILLA
Saturday, February 2, 2019, from 2 pm - 4:30 pm
Feb 20, 2019 - Silk, Spices, and Silver: Palmyra and the Ancient Luxury Trade
TALKS
Can part of Palmyra's lost heritage be saved?
Giuseppe Mancini January 15, 2019
A specialist works on a damaged statue from Palmyra at the National Museum of Damascus, Syria, Jan. 9, 2019.
Parallel rows of marble columns rise across the Syrian desert, interspersed with temples and other impressive buildings. Palmyra was an oasis in the land between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean, inhabited even in prehistoric times. After the destruction of the city's ruins by Islamic State, modern technologies are being used to restore the ancient site and its treasures.
According to legend, King Solomon founded Palmyra on the spot. The city changed hands several times, seized by various Eastern and Western empires. The cultural blending in the city made it the true intersection of the Occident and Orient.
Under Roman domination during the first to the third century, Palmyra grew extremely wealthy as a caravan city along the Silk Road. Luxury items and spices from China, India, Persia and the Arabian Peninsula passed through it en route to Rome.
In 270 AD, Zenobia, the overly ambitious queen of Palmyra, seeking to become the empress of the entire East, inevitably clashed with Rome, which crushed her. Although Palmyra remained relatively prominent while a part of the Umayyad caliphate, seated in Damascus, the city's glory began to fade.
....
Before being restituted to the National Museum of Damascus, they were displayed at the exhibition space at the Colosseum in Rome along with a reconstruction of the bas-relief from the Temple of Bel decorated with the Zodiac. IS dynamited the original. The Damascus museum joined in the collective effort, restoring the 15-ton iconic limestone lion that protected the entrance to the temple of Al-lat.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/01/palmyra-lost-heritage.html
https://en.unesco.org/events/millennial-cities-virtual-journey-palmyra-mosul
Link: https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/stones-and-lives-shattered-the-quest-to-revive-palmyra-1.135604?videoId=5766484581001
Palmyra is an ancient area of pagan worship and Roman
occupation. It is notable now because the Roman Triumphal Arch has been replicated
and paraded around to international cities and sites throughout the world. It is being called a “peace arch.” Why is a
Pagan arch celebrated? Time and energy should be devoted to help the people of
Syria to rebuild their cities and homes for everyday living not resurrecting ancient pagan art.
These blogs document the actions used with this “peace
force” and try to discern what they may mean in light of scripture and biblical
end-time prophecy.
Stay watchful! Maranatha!
Ephesians
6
Historical information and prior events surround the Palmyra Triumphal Arch:
Arch of Triumph of
Palmyra, Syria – Tammy’s Blogs
Part 1 – April 2016
– Sept 30, 2017 – London, Manhattan, Dubai, Florence, Arona
Part 2 – Timeline
review – Palmyra, Carrara, Italy, Marble, Florence, Arona, Insights
Part 3 – Sept. 2018 – D.C., Columbus, Illinois
and Roman Emperor Septimius Severus
Part 4 - Oct.-Nov., 2018 – The Hague, The
Netherlands, International Court, Syrian Heritage
Part 5 – Dec.1, 2018 – London's Victoria &
Albert Museum Cast Court Exhibit
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