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22 August 2008 – 7 December 2008

Rome and the Barbarians - Europe during the Migration Period

An exhibition of the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
In the face of the persistent and momentous invasions of the barbarian hordes into the territory of the Roman Empire Saint Jerome wrote in 396: “The Roman Empire is collapsing.” In fact, the pervasive political, social, and cultural cataclysms that shook the Hellenistic-Roman world from the fourth to the seventh century A.D. initiated massive migration movements among Germanic and horse nomadic tribes. This migration period, which occurred in several waves, ultimately led to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which was followed by new forms of governance and the emergence of a complex Roman-Barbarian culture. At the same time the remote geographical region between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea became the starting point of an unprecedented confrontation and subsequent redistribution of various tribes (e.g. the Goths, Gepids, Alamanns, Huns) across Europe. The exhibition offers a systematic account of these complex processes. What set this mass migration in motion, who were the main actors of the events, how did the Empire react? The richly varied selection of magnificent weapons and riding harnesses, precious jewelry, luxurious status symbols, as well as functional articles of everyday use, cult objects and exquisite burial objects makes the distant era of the migration period come alive.

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