The collections of the Louvre in Cortona - Arezzo From March 5 to July 3, 2011, at MAEC - Etruscan Academy Museum of the City of Cortona - Arezzo, the exhibition will be held collections of the Louvre in Cortona. The Etruscans from the Arno to the Tiber.
After the great exhibition of materials from the Hermitage in 2008 Etruscans, Cortona wanted to give life to another extraordinary occasion featuring a group of objects from the more prestigious world museum, the Louvre in Paris.
The desire to bring together the collections lit, started in the eighteenth century in this small town in Tuscany, and the results of the latest and amazing excavations conducted here, with the grandeur of a collection imperial as that of the French museum, which took over the greatest masterpieces of all artistic genres, brought to illustrate a theme of challenging but not yet in-depth: the relations between the centers of Etruria gravitating inside the valleys of the Arno and the Tiber and in direct contact, political and cultural life, the people of the eastern sector of the peninsula.
What emerged was a picture with a new and exciting route from the territory of Fiesole follows the Arno from its sources to the Val di Chiana and the contact with the highest river in central Italy, the Tiber. Along this we arrive at the gates of Rome, through the towns of Chiusi, Perugia and Orvieto, passing for the singular and the world falisco grandisosità the center of Veii, the first to be absorbed by the Romans.
The various historical phases of the relationship between these centers are then studied through their major achievements, not only in arts and crafts but also on the political and religious. You can admire the bronze vases, urns and tombs, pottery and precious jewels.
Cortona will be on show at famous works as the head of Fiesole or important votive bronzes of the Falterona: pieces of crafts such as ivory pyxis in the Castellani collection of pendants or admirable Campana collection, the bronze statue Menerva found in the vicinity of sarcophagus from Chiusi and Perugia, or even the sophisticated plates Bomarzo.
But also exhibits come from the Louvre for the first time in Italy or little known to the general public and absolutely exceptional: as the great terracotta bust of Ariadne, part of a monumental statue until about ten years ago preserved without identity, warehouses of the great French museum. Today, the bride of Dionysus, with its ornaments and its ritual act, is considered among the finest examples of terracotta Etruscan Hellenistic period.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday
at 10-19. Closed Mondays.
In two days 12 and 13 February 2011, to celebrate Valentine's Day reduced fee for couples.
For more information:
MAEC - 9 Piazza Signorelli, Cortona - Arezzo
Tel: 0575 637 235
Website: www.cortonamaec.org
