Author: De Agostino, A.
Title: The Central Archaeological Museum of Etruria
Description: Florence, Bartolini Publications, 1959. . Paperback. . Unmarked. Small tear on back cover. Includes 40 illustrations in the text, map, and original plans. 40p. The collection's first foundations were the family collections of the Medici and Lorraine, with several transfers from the Uffizi up to 1890 (except the collections of marble sculpture which the Uffizi already possessed). The Egyptian section was first formed in the first half of the 18th century from part of the collections of Pierre Leopold de Toscane, from another part of an expedition promoted by the same Grand Duke in 1828. . . Good

Keywords: Italian Art, Etruscan Art, Antiquities, Sculpture, Florentine Museum, Archaeological Museum, European Art


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