National Etruscan Museum
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This page is on the museum itself, for the architectural history of the house see Villa Giulia.
The National Etruscan Museum (Italian - Museo Nazionale Etrusco) is a museum of the Etruscan civilization housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy.
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[edit] History
The Villa was built by the popes and remained their 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.
[edit] Collections
Its most famous single treasure is the terracotta funerary monument, the almost life-size Bride and Groom (the so-called Sarcofago degli Sposi) reclining as if they were at a dinner party.
Other remains held are:
- The Etruscan-Phoenician Pyrgi Tablets.
- The Apollo of Veii.
- The Cista Ficoroni.
- A reconstructed frieze displaying Kreugas eating the brain of his enemy.
[edit] Gallery
 Apollo Helios |
 Sarcofago degli Sposi : the sarcophagus of the married couple, part of the Etruscan Museum |
 A Mater Matuta from the museum |
 Detail of clay group with mythological scene from the Theban cycle, from the area of temple A at Pyrgi, mid-fifth century BC. |
Media related to Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia from the Wikimedia Commons.
[edit] External links
- (Italian) Museo Nazionale Etrusco information
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