From 27/03/2024 to 05/05/2024
The exhibition "Etruscan Paintings Narrate: Myth and Ritual from Caere to Vetulonia. A new extraordinary recovery by the Guardia di Finanza" inaugurates, on Wednesday, March 27 at 5:00 PM, the 2024 exhibition season of the Archaeological Civic Museum "Isidoro Falchi", immediately characterizing it with an extraordinary level of excellence.
Exclusive protagonists of the exhibition are four terracotta painted slabs originating from clandestine excavations near Cerveteri, the Etruscan Caere, saved from the illegal market thanks to the invaluable surveillance, protection, conservation, and enhancement activities carried out by the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the province of Viterbo and southern Etruria, in close and fruitful collaboration with law enforcement, particularly with the Section for the Protection of Public Property and Public Interest of the Guardia di Finanza of Rome.
The exhibition marks the beginning of the 2024 exhibition season of the museum, immediately characterizing it with an extraordinary level of excellence. A recovery of extreme archaeological value that has brought to light new unknown masterpieces of archaic Etruscan painting, which after being exhibited to the public for the first time at the Museum of Etruscan and Italic Antiquities of the Sapienza University of Rome, will be on display at the MuVet from March 27 to May 5, 2024.
As emphasized in the title of the exhibition, the exhibited slabs are true "paintings" on which the vivid colors and original Etruscan iconographies masterfully immortalize characters and key episodes of Greek myth, narrating them with power and evoking ancient stories that intertwine human, heroic, and divine events.
