The Eighteenth-Century Library | VIRTUAL TOUR
The eighteenth-century Library of the Accademia Etrusca preserves precious volumes and the symbolic coat of arms that reflects wisdom, myth, and Cortona’s identity.
Funerary Boat | 3D
Model of a funerary boat with five male figures, including the deceased. The hull is painted in green-blue and red bands; the mast is white with alternating red and black stripes.
Shabti box | 3D
Funerary box decorated with the Four Sons of Horus and winged female figures. It was used to hold shabtis, statuettes placed in tombs to serve the deceased in the afterlife.
Isis nursing Horus | 3D
The goddess Isis is shown seated, nursing the child Horus on her lap: a powerful image of divine motherhood and kingship.
Seven Surviving Fragments
The seven surviving bronze fragments once formed a rectangular [...]
We might never have seen it
It is believed that in antiquity the tablet was [...]
Among the masterpieces of the MAEC
The Tabula Cortonensis is on display at the MAEC [...]
Method of Manufacture: Lost-Wax Casting
A clay core shaped like the lamp is first created [...]
Medusa
Medusa is one of the three Gorgons of Greek mythology, [...]
Hunting scenes
On the lamp there are twelve animals arranged in four [...]
