National Etruscan Museum
Archaeological museum in Rome
41°55′06″N 12°28′40″E / 41.9183°N 12.4778°E / 41.9183; 12.4778 The National Etruscan Museum (Italian: Museo Nazionale Etrusco) is a museum of the Etruscan civilization, housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy.
History
The villa was built for Pope Julius III, for whom it was named. It remained in papal property until 1870, when, in the wake of the Risorgimento and the demise of the Papal States, it became the property of the Kingdom of Italy. The museum was founded in 1889 as part of the same nationalistic movement, with the aim of collecting together all the pre-Roman antiquities of Latium, southern Etruria and Umbria belonging to the Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations, and has been housed in the villa since the beginning of the 20th century.
Collections
The museum's most famous single treasure is the terracotta funerary monument, the almost life-size Bride and Groom (the so-called Sarcofago degli Sposi, or Sarcophagus of the Spouses), reclining as if they were at a dinner party.
Other objects held are:
- The Etruscan-Phoenician Pyrgi Tablets[1]
- The Apollo of Veii[2]
- The Cista Ficoroni
- A reconstructed frieze displaying Tydeus eating the brain of his enemy Melanippus
- The Tita Vendia vase
- The Sarpedon Krater (or, the "Euphronios Krater") - this is now at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, it was at the Villa Giulia from 2008 to 2014
- The Centaur of Vulci
- Phoenician metal bowls
See also
References
- Moretti, Anna Maria Sgubini, ed. (2001). The Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum: Short Guide. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider; Ingegneria per la cultura. ISBN 88-8265-012-X.
External links
- Museo Nazionale Etrusco information (in Italian)
Media related to Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia at Wikimedia Commons
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- Origins
- Villanovan culture
- Padanian Etruria
- Founding of Rome
- Tyrrhenus
- Tyrrhenians
- Tarchon
- Aulus Vibenna
- Caelius Vibenna
- Capys
- Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
- Tanaquil
- Servius Tullius
- Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
- Arruns Tarquinius (son of Tarquin the Proud)
- Lars Porsena
- Lars Tolumnius
- Titus Vestricius Spurinna
- Apollo of Veii
- Architecture
- Art
- Chimera of Arezzo
- Coins
- Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum
- Etruscan League
- Etruscan names for Greek heroes
- Tiburtine Sibyl
- Fanum Voltumnae
- Haruspex/Extispicy
- Jewelry
- Lausus
- Liver of Piacenza
- Mezentius
- Monterozzi necropolis
- Mythological figures
- Persius
- Poppilia
- Raeti
- Religion
- Sarcophagus of the Spouses
- Tages
- Terracotta warriors
- Titus Larcius
- Tomb of the Roaring Lions
- Vulca
- Battle of Alalia (540 BC–535 BC)
- Siege of Rome (509 BC)
- Siege of Rome (508 BC)
- Battle of the Cremera (477 BC)
- Battle of Cumae (474 BC)
- Battle of Fidenae (437 BC)
- Capture of Fidenae (435 BC)
- Battle of Veii (c. 396 BC)
- Battle of Lake Vadimo (310 BC)
- Battle of Populonia (282 BC)
- Roman-Etruscan Wars
- Bucchero
- Cuniculi
- Etruscology
- Impasto (pottery)
- Monteleone Chariot
- National Etruscan Museum
- Negau helmet
- Portonaccio
- Tomb of Orcus
- Tumulus of Montefortini
- Vicus Tuscus
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