Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases: Caravan Roads through Central Asia
Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases: Caravan Roads through Central Asia
Dr Rocco Rante will talk about the exhibition "Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases", currently on view at the Louvre.
13 March 15:00
Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
In this lecture, Rocco Rante, will walk us through “The Splendours of Uzbekistan Oases” exhibition at the Louvre Museum (23 November 2022 to 6 March 2023), which highlighted the culture of a vast area of Central Asia from antiquity to the medieval Islamic period. Themes include the difference between nomadic and sedentary lifestyles, and the cultural exchanges between Iranian, Hellenistic, Greco-Bactrian, Turkic, Chinese, Indian, Mongolian and other civilizations and groups. Dr Rante will contextualise the objects within the Uzbek, French, and Russian archaeological expeditions that unearthed the objects, and take us behind the scenes of organising such an exhibition.
About the Speaker:
Rocco Rante is archaeologist at the Louvre Museum and has a Habilitation to direct PhD theses at the Sorbonne-Panthéon University. He heads the Franco-Uzbek Archaeological Mission in the Bukhara Oasis and the Franco-Iranian Archaeological Mission in Khorasan. He published several books, of which the most recent are the trilogy The Bukhara Oasis, vol. 1-3.
