Culture Corridor at the Venue of G20 Summit
The Culture Corridor-G-20 Digital Museum has been conceptualised by the Ministry of Culture to represent and celebrate the shared heritage of G-20 members and invitee countries and will create a “museum in the making”.
This exhibition will be unveiled at ‘Bharat Mandapam’, the venue for the G-20 Leaders’ Summit, on September 9.
Submissions were requested from G-20 countries and nine guest nations under five categories:
1. Object of Cultural Significance (as a physical display);
2. Iconic Cultural Masterpiece (as a digital display);
3. Intangible Cultural Heritage (digital display);
4. Natural Heritage (digital display);
5. Artefact Related to Democratic Practices (physical or digital display).
Magna Carta
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta.
It is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
Drafted to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons.
It is the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.
Bronze statue of Belvedere Apollo
Around 1489, a statue was found in Rome which became one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity very soon after its excavation: a larger-than-life-size marble statue of Apollo.
Ever since 1503, when it was erected in the Belvedere, the sculpture courtyard of the Vatican, it has been known as the Apollo Belvedere.
The bronze figure of the Apollo Belvedere in the Liebieghaus is a work by the Renaissance sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico.
Because of its closeness to the ancient original, it is thought to be the earliest of three bronzes made by him as small-scale reproductions of that original.
Antico is the first artist since ancient times who is known to have made multiple bronze casts from a threedimensional model.
18th century Fahua-lidded jar from China
The term fahua or 'designs with borders' describes a particularly striking style of decoration seen on Chinese ceramics of the Ming dynasty, 15th-17th centuries.
On fahua wares, the design is outlined in relief in trailing lines of slip and then filled in with brightly-coloured glazes.
Panini’s Ashtadhyayi
Written more than 2,000 years ago, Ashtadhyayi or ‘Eight Chapters', is an ancient text written by the scholar Panini towards the end of the 4th century BC.
It is a linguistic text that set the standard for how Sanskrit was meant to be written and spoken.
It delves deep into the language’s phonetics, syntax and grammar, and also offers a ‘language machine’, where one can feed in the root and suffix of any Sanskrit word, and get grammatically correct words and sentences in return.
The Ashtadhyayi laid down more than 4,000 grammatical rules.
Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance.
The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression,monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism.
It was believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517.
It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic.
It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797.
It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history.
Gutenberg’s Bible
The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the earliest major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West.
It is an edition of the Latin Vulgate printed in the 1450s by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, in present-day Germany.
Coatlicue statue
The Coatlicue statue is one of the most famous surviving Aztec sculptures.
It is a 2.52 metre (8.3 ft) tall andesite statue by an unidentified Mexica artist.
Although there are many debates about what or who the statue represents, it is usually identified as the Aztec deity Coatlicue ("Snakes-Her-Skirt").
It is currently located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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