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Etruscs. Artists and craftsmen

Bolzano, Trevi-Trevilab Center October 24, 2024 - February 2, 2025

13 August 2024372 Views

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Exhibition sponsored by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in collaboration with and curated by the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome.
Bolzano. The Trevi-Trevilab Center offers a truly extraordinary opportunity to get closer to the fascinating, and in some ways still mysterious, Etruscan culture. It does so with the exhibition “Etruscans. Artists and Craftsmen,” promoted by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Italian Culture, thanks to the collaboration of the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, directed by Luana Toniolo, a museum that preserves the most important collection of Etruscan artifacts in the world. The exhibition, curated by Valentina Belfiore and Maria Paola Guidobaldi of the museum’s curatorial team, is part of the second stage of the “Stories of Art with Great Museums” series, a multi-year journey aimed at the discovery of the great ancient and modern civilizations, “another fundamental step toward the knowledge of our past with the aim of always keeping alive the interest in culture and the rich artistic heritage preserved in the great Italian museums,” stressed Marco Galateo, vice president of the Province and councillor for Italian Culture.

The title “Etruscans. Artists and Craftsmen” already introduces the peculiar slant of the Bolzano exhibition: it is not a generic exhibition on the Etruscans, but focuses on a specific aspect of their great civilization, that of artistic and craft production. The manifestations of “artistic craftsmanship,” say the curators, “represent the best approach to approaching the knowledge and study of the Etruscans, who were privileged interlocutors for the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, among the populations of the ancient Mediterranean. Indeed, through Etruscan productions one can try to understand their models, sources of inspiration, imagery, ways of relating to nature and the sacred, or the influences exerted on other cultures.