Date: 28 July 2015 – 01 Nov. 2015

A major exhibition "Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World" was open at the Los Angeles Getty Museum on July 28, 2015.

Following exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, with the participation of the Tuscany's directorate general for archaeology and it represents one of the largest expositions of this kind.

The exhibition hosts some of the most important masterpieces of the ancient world from many of the world's leading archaeological museums including the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Galleria Uffizi and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Vatican Museums and the Georgian National Museum, which  represented bronze torso of a youth dated 2nd - 1st century BC, discovered in Vani settlement (Georgia).

Participation at the exhibition is due to the long term collaboration of Georgian National Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum (Cooperation project includes joint scientific and technical studies of the ancient metals).

Before moving to Los Angeles, following exhibition was presented at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and after Getty Museum, exposition will move to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Exhibition at the J.Paul Getty Museum will last until 1st of November 2015.

As soon as Georgian National Museum Otar Lordkipanidze Vani Museum-Reserve will finish its large scale reconstruction works in 2016, the bronze torso of a youth will be returned at the original place.