The exhibition, the result of a three-year collaboration between the MAEC – Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona and the Louvre Museum, presented more than forty Etruscan masterpieces from the Paris museum’s collections, including the exceptional Ariadne from Falerii, the symbolic highlight of the exhibition.Curated by Paolo Bruschetti, Françoise Gaultier, Paolo Giulierini and Laurent Haumesser, the project explored Etruscan civilisation in the territories between the Arno and the Tiber through artefacts from Fiesole, Chiusi, Orvieto, Perugia, Falerii and Bomarzo.

The exhibition included statues, bronzes, urns, jewellery and terracottas, many of which had never been shown before in Italy, offering a vivid overview of inland Etruria and its cultural exchanges. The exhibition reaffirmed Cortona’s role as a centre of excellence for the study and promotion of Etruscan civilisation, continuing the tradition of the Accademia Etrusca and reflecting the international outlook of the MAEC.