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Around 70% of the works owned by Italian museums are kept in storage. As a result, they are considering showcasing some of them in hotels and transit hubs where thousands of people pass through annually. The project is called “Art Outside the Museum", and in Rome includes the Diana, Universo, and Scalinata di Spagna hotels, ready to present installations of three Roman works from the imperial age from the deposits of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica. On display in the cases of the three structures, members of the Committee of Historic Hotels of Rome, will be marble heads of two matrons and a fresco of a deity, all dating back to the 2nd century AD. At Hotel Diana is Faustina the Elder, august wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius, a symbol of female imperial power and a future deity of the vast Roman pantheon. Hosted at the Universo is her sister-in-law and co-mother-in-law Domitia Lucilla, a very wealthy woman of the senatorial nobility and mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the top of the Spanish Steps, one of the three Fates comes to a halt and returns to its natural colors: Lachesis, the goddess tasked with measuring the thread of life.
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