LA CIVILTÀ ROMANA · VITTORIO STORARO
Hannibal at the gates.
Aeneas, the first Roman.
Rome.
● Plastico di Roma, Museum of Roman Civilization, Rome · Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro set the profile of Hannibal over the model of ancient Rome, beside the head of Aeneas from a fresco in Mantua.
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THE STORY
The enemy who came closest to Rome, and the hero who began it. One cinematographer put them face to face.
The model of the city is the Plastico di Roma at the Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome, where the profile of Hannibal is also kept. The head of Aeneas comes from the fresco of the battle between Greeks and Trojans in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua. Hannibal marched on Rome in 211 BC.
Three Academy Awards for cinematography: Apocalypse Now, 1980; Reds, 1982; The Last Emperor, 1988. Then he spent five years photographing the Roman world.
From his chapter on the Defence of Rome, where the city is read through the light of the Sun.
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