The Musée de la Romanité, in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, presents an exhibition devoted to the place of art in Roman civilisation, built around an exceptional selection of ancient works. Roman civilisation is characterised by the importance given, at least among the most privileged strata of the communities of the Empire, to the sophistication of material culture. This constant attention means that every domain of life, in the public sphere as in the private, domestic or funerary domain, was a site for the production of images and, more generally still, of artistic forms.
From glass tableware to marble statuary, the mastery of artistic styles and of technologically advanced production techniques defines an art of living that forms part of the very idea the Romans had of civilisation.