The largest island in the Mediterranean. The home of Mount Etna. A cultural centre of the ancient and medieval world.

Sicily has been shaped by waves of conquest and settlement by different peoples over 4,000 years.

This exhibition tells Sicily’s fascinating stories – from the arrival of the Greeks in the 8th century BC to the extraordinary period of enlightenment under Norman rule in the 11th to 13th centuries.

Sicily: culture and conquest
21 April – 14 August 2016

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Sponsored by Julius Baer.
In collaboration with Regione Siciliana.

Objects featured in the video:

Terracotta altar depicting a lion attacking a bull. Sicily, c. 550–500 BC. Museo Archeologico Regionale ‘Paolo Orsi’. © Regione Siciliana.

Gilded bronze falcon. Sicily or southern Italy, AD 1200–1220. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1947, (47.101.60). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Terracotta horse’s head from an equestrian group which surmounted a temple. Sicily, c. 480–460 BC. Museo Archeologico di Gela. © Regione Siciliana.

Mosaic of the Madonna from Palermo Cathedral. Sicily, AD 1130–1189. © Museo Diocesano.

Limestone head from a carved metope. Selinous, Sicily, c. 540–510 BC. Museo Archeologico Regionale ‘A Salinas’, Palermo. © Regione Siciliana.

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