Rethinking Etruria: Exploring the Norchia Tombs with Vincent Jolivet

Please join us as Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ISAW Exhibitions Director, hosts guest curator Vincent Jolivet in a gallery conversation about the recent work and discoveries at the Etruscan necropolis at Norchia. Using the objects on display, Vincent will discuss how his team's excavations have helped us understand more about the Etruscan language and society, and how digital techniques such as drone photography and photogrammetry have allowed us to bring Norchia into the gallery for visitors to experience.

A member of the École française between 1983 and 1985, Vincent Jolivet joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1986. His archaeological research has focused in particular on the topography of ancient Rome, based on the excavations he directed on the Pincian hill between 1981 and 2005, on the site of the ancient Gardens of Lucullus. At the same time, he has carried out excavations in Southern Etruria, mainly in the Viterbo region: at the Etruscan-Roman site of Musarna, between 1983 and 2003; at the monumental Hellenistic rock tomb of Grotte Scalina, between 2010 and 2019; and now at the Lattanzi tomb in Norchia, since 2020.

This lecture is given in conjunction with ISAW's exhibition Rethinking Etruria. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were made possible by generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation.

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