Magic Lantern slides depicting Hours of the day and scenes of Ancient Greece history (cm 37 x 9,5), originally belonging to the Lorena, Grand Dukes of Tuscany, c.1790.
The exhibition took place in 2001 at Cortona for the occasion of the Exhibition of Antiques, and regarding the acquisition on the part of the Museum of 108 precious hand-painted projection slides, the chest that contained them and the original magic lantern that used to project them. Dating from the last decade of the 18th Century, they came from the Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano, a temporary residence of the ducal family of the Lorena. The slides represent the main Ancient Greek myths and many events that relate to the history of Rome.