Guardian of Hades
A head full of curls. A polychrome terracotta head from the Hellenistic period, its eyes closed and dreamy, it comes from the Morgantina excavations where it was found and stolen in 1977. It is nicknamed the Bluebeard, but it is an image of great peace in a world where there was not yet hell and heaven. It came home from the Getty museum in Los Angeles to which it had been illegally sold. It was rediscovered by two tenacious researchers (Serena Raffiotta and Lucia Ferruzza) who started from a blue curl that had been left in the Morgantina warehouses to prove the statue's inevitable belonging to the Sicilian excavations. The head joins the Goddess of Morgantina, an imposing six-tonne statue, also recovered (in American museums) and reassembled, and other masterpieces that make this museum a small secret place to discover.
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