Talk:Palazzo Madama, Turin

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Some time has passed since I wrote the below and no change has been made, so I have gone ahead and made the change myself. The most basic change is incontrovertible: the museum in question is not a museum of ancient art; to call it one was an error. I have also deleted the section claiming that the museum contains a rare collection of art from Ghandara; not only was no such collection in evidence in my own rather comprehensive visit to the museum, but the museum's webpage appears to make no mention of it. Of course, if somehow I am wrong and the museum does in fact contain such a collection, I would love to have the record set straight.

One further note: Turin does, as I say below, contain a museum of ancient art, called the Museo dell'Antichita. It does not appear to have a wikipedia page.

I think the name "Museum of Ancient Art" is a mistranslation based on uncritical transference of cognates. In Italian it is called "Museo di Arte Antica" but "antica" turns out just to mean "old", like our word "antique". (Just like the French "ancien"--the "ancien regime" was not "ancient"!) The museum is mainly a collection of works from the late middle ages to the 18th century. There was also, when I visited, a temporary exhibition of Albanian art which included ancient works, but I saw no evidence of a Gandhara collection in a fairly thorough visit that lasted several hours. Turin does have a museum of ancient art: it's called the museum of "antichita" which corresponds to our "antiquity".

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 03:04, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]