The exhibition "Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World" opened at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence on March 14 and it runs through June 21, 2015.

The exhibition features 50 works of the Hellenistic era (4th - 1st centuries BCE) from archaeological museums in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the United States.

"Although all of these pairs have been shown together frequently in art history books, this is the very first time that any of them have been displayed side by side,” says James M. Bradburne, director of the Strozzi Palace Foundation.

Bronze works from antiquity are quite rare, he adds, because so many were melted down over the centuries in order to mint coins and manufacture arms.

Following its display in Florence, the exhibition will travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (July 28–November 1) and then to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (December 6–March 13, 2016).

See also: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition