Etruscan artifacts and jewelry from the Castellani Collection on display at the Rovati Foundation

From October 25, 2023, to March 3, 2024, the Luigi Rovati Foundation in Milan is offering the exhibition Etruscan Treasures. The Castellani Collection Between History and Fashion, produced in collaboration with the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome.

On display for the occasion will be a selection of artifacts and jewelry from the Castellani Collection, one of Rome’s richest and most important antiquarian collections in terms of the objects that comprise it and the prominence of the personalities who contributed to its constitution during the 19th century.

The activities of Fortunato Pio Castellani and his sons Alessandro and Augusto, goldsmiths, collectors and antique dealers, were intertwined with the season of the great excavation discoveries in the territories formerly inhabited by Etruscan and Italic peoples. The Castellani family developed an intense activity of collecting and trading antiquities from the peninsula. In 1919 the largest nucleus of Augustus’ legacy was donated to the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia and today constitutes one of its main sections.

The Castellans’ name is also associated with the invention of a new genre of goldsmithing “in the style of the ancients,” which sought to reproduce in form and working techniques ancient jewelry.

After Milan, the exhibition will continue from March 2024 at the Landesmuseum in Hanover.

For info: www.fondazioneluigirovati.org

Image: Kylix attributed to the Painter of Phrynos (mid-6th century BC; Attic black-figure pottery) Exterior: departure of warrior. Interior: centaur hurling a boulder. ©National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia. Photo by Stefano dal Pozzolo.

Etruscan artifacts and jewelry from the Castellani Collection on display at the Rovati Foundation

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