British Museum director Hartwig Fischer said the show was “the first major exhibition in the UK to look beyond the commonly held view of Nero as the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned”.

The British Museum’s new exhibition on the Roman Emperor Nero opens with a piece of fake news from the ancient world Via AP news wire Monday 24 May 2021 17:29 BST ...

Thorsten Opper, Curator, Ancient Rome, British Museum, said 'The Nero of our common imagination is an entirely artificial figure, carefully crafted 2000 years ago. It is fascinating to unravel how ...

Yet this new exhibition at the British Museum argues that most of what we think we know about Nero is wrong. ... He lowered taxes, built public baths and handed out bread to Rome’s poor.

The exhibition begins with one of the most impressive drawings by Piranesi in the British Museum's collection, Fantastical façade of an antique building with columns, heads and sphinxes, c. 1765-69.

“When Michelangelo moved to Rome in 1534, he was almost 60 years old,” said Sarah Vowles, the British Museum’s Italian and French prints and drawings curator.

Legion: life in the Roman army – one of 'the most powerful' British Museum exhibitions. This 'gripping' new exhibition explores how Rome built its vast empire 'on military might' ...

The British Museum’s show is themed around another legionary in search of footwear. Terentianus was a 2nd-century Egyptian lad with military ambitions but no social connections.

Bad reputation: British Museum takes new look at Rome’s Nero May 24, 2021 Updated Mon., May 24, 2021 at 9:25 p.m. Updated Mon., May 24, 2021 at 9:25 p.m.