The Meadows Museum will honor the 15th anniversary (in 2009) of SMU’s archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, Italy, with exhibitions on the great ancestors of Rome – the Etruscans – Jan. 25-May 17. University Distinguished Professor of Art History P. Gregory Warden serves as principal investigator of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project and co-director of the project’s Poggio Colla Field School, an internationally recognized research training center in which SMU has participated since 1995.
“From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany” will be the most comprehensive exhibition of Etruscan art ever undertaken in the United States.
More than 350 objects spanning the ninth through first centuries BCE will be on
display at the Meadows. Included will be some of the most significant objects from Florence’s National Museum of Archaeology, which holds one of the finest collections of Etruscan art.
In addition, a co-exhibit, “New Light on the Etruscans: Fourteen Years of Excavation at Poggio Colla,” displays for the first time in this country nearly 100 Etruscan artifacts discovered by SMU-led excavations in Tuscany. Among the artifacts will be a coin discovered by SMU senior Jayme Clemente.
For more information, call 214-768-2516.