Le tombe dipinte di Tarquinia e il Giappone

Abstract

My short article is dealing with museums and collections, exhibitions, congresses, publications, illegal art market and relations between Italy and Japan concerning particularly Etruscan culture and Etruscan tomb paintings of Tarquinia. In 1987 for the first time an original Etruscan painted tomb (Tomba delle Olimpiadi from Tarquinia) was presented in Japan. In 2000/2001 in the exhibition “Investing in the Afterlife” at the Tokyo University Museum several copies of Etruscan paintings by Carlo Ruspi were exhibited. The project of the first systematic catalogue of Etruscan tomb paintings was created in Japan and realized in 1985 under the patronage of Massimo Pallottino who visited Japan in 1989.