Bringing Looted Etruscan Art Home

The richness of Etruscan artistry is currently on show in an exhibition at Museo Centrale Montemartini in Rome. The Colors of the Etruscans (curated by Alfonsina Russo, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Leonardo Bochicchio, Daniele Federico Maras, and Rossella Zaccagnini) brings together a superb series of terracotta frescos and sculpture, which once decorated the walls and roofs of temples, houses, and tombs. Although many of the pieces are fragmentary, they still reveal the excellence of Etruscan molding and painting; through the subjects depicted, they provide an insight into Etruscan society.