✨ Discover Volterra, the ancient Etruscan capital wrapped in Val di Cecina’s magic. Alabaster, legends, witches & vampires await in this timeless Tuscan village. Ready for a weekend out of the ordinary?
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teatro romano de Volterra
Explora Volterra, donde la Antigua Roma y el mundo etrusco se encuentran 🏛️. Déjate impresionar por la Puerta del Arco y el majestuoso Teatro Romano 🏺.
📖 Toda la información aquí: viatorimperi.es/volterra/
#AntiguaRoma #Arqueología #Volterra #ViatorImperi #TurismoCultural
A collection of my Italian landscape watercolour paintings...
Original Paintings are available in my shop: denisewongarts.etsy.com
#Italy #Tuscany #LakeComo #Venice #Volterra #Italianlandscape #Nature #ItalianRestaurant #Watercolour #Painting #Art #Prints #PaintingforSale #OriginalPaintings
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MMSI: 244620196
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Volterra Expands Product Line with Custom Doors for Complete Design Solutions #USA #Phoenix #architectural_products #Volterra #custom_doors
Known about c.1600, but worked on by sculptor, Antonio Faltoni, in 19th Century. He stuck the head onto “estranged robed torso”. Now in 21st Century a change of head, replacement with 1st Century CE example more contemporary with torso.
"Prete Marzio" - toga clad statue,
Santo Stefano, #Volterra
1st Century CE
#Roman statue which once overlooked the spring at Prato Marzio, Santo Stefano
How much is original?
Evidence of changing ideas of “restoration”.
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Now Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
#RomanSiteSaturday
🎭 NON SOLO BARZELLETTE 🎭😂
Si avvicina l'appuntamento con Alessandro Paci a Volterra e il suo imperdibile one-man show.
📅 24 gennaio 2026
📍 Teatro Persio Flacco – Volterra
Il celebre comico toscano porta in… http://dlvr.it/TQMVtl #AlessandroPaci #NonSoloBarzellette #TeatroPersioFlacco #Volterra
Our Mulinaccio residency now has a welcome sign! Artist in residence Raquel Mora Vega designed and painted it. Isn’t it so glorious! 😍
#corneliafunke #volterra #tuscany #artistinresidence #mulinaccio #welcomesign #illustration
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Lid of an #Etruscan funerary urn with reclining male figure. He is dressed as a banqueter, wearing a wreath and holding a dish. Museum text - “Most of the sculpture in this case is from the collection of Dr John Disney, a barrister and collector. Disney had a strong connection with the University of Cambridge. He was a student at Peterhouse, and in 185l he established the first professorship of archaeology in England, the Disney Chair. When Disney gave his ancient sculpture collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1850, most of it had already been in England for a hundred years. The collection was started by Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) and his friend Thomas Brand, during their travels in Italy. When they died, their estate, including the ancient sculpture, was left to the Reverend John Disney (1746-1816). His son and heir, Dr John Disney, continued to add to the collection”
Lid of an #Etruscan funerary urn
Made in #Volterra
Tufa
c. 250-100 BCE
Found in Volterra and eventually later part of Dr John Disney collection.
Such private collections form the basis of many of our famous museums.
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Now #FitzwilliamMuseum #Cambridge
#FindsFriday
😂🎭 NON SOLO BARZELLETTE 🎭😂
Alessandro Paci arriva a Volterra con il suo imperdibile one-man show.
📅 24 gennaio 2026
📍 Teatro Persio Flacco – Volterra
Il celebre comico toscano porta in scena uno spettacolo… http://dlvr.it/TQ6sTl #AlessandroPaci #NonSoloBarzellette #TeatroPersioFlacco #Volterra
Museum caption - “It shows a scene from the myth of Pelops and Hippodamia on the walls of the urn. The two protagonists are depicted during the chariot race that Oenomaus, father of Hippodamia, had wanted as a test to grant his daughter in marriage. Oenomaus is shown being run over by horses and killed following the sabotage of his chariot by Pelops.”
#Etruscan alabaster funerary urn
2nd century BCE
Produced in #Volterra
Pelops & Oenomaus chariot race scene. (See ALT text)
#Medieval period it was reused to hold the remains of St Felice the Presbyter.
Found 1414 in the Duomo.
Now Museo dell’Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi, #Pistoia.
#FindsOnFriday
Volterra, Palazzo Arcivescovile: pietra severa, merli netti, finestre gotiche come feritoie eleganti. Qui l’architettura non cerca la grazia: fa valere la presenza, come un edificio che sa di dover “tenere” la piazza.
#Volterra #PalazzoArcivescovile #Toscana #FotoStorica #ArchitetturaMedievale
Christmas illustration by Cornelia Funke
I rallied all animals around Volterra to wish you a wonderful Christmas!
#corneliafunke #volterra #tuscany #christmas2025 #animals #peace #merrychristmas
Museum caption - “The head portrays the Emperor Augustus (63 BC 14 AD) at a young age, when he was only Octavian and did not yet have the imperial titles. It belongs to the portrait type "Azio" or "Ottaviano". The dating of the head is still uncertain: some scholars attribute it to 30-20 B.C., for other scholars it would be a posthumous replica, to be attributed to the age of Caligula.”
Museum caption - “Marble portrait of Livia Drusilla (58 BC - 29 AD), the wife of Emperor Augustus. Livia is shown young and beautiful. Her face with its large eyes and refined chin accorded with Roman conceptions of feminine beauty.”
Roman Emperor & his wife.
1st Century BCE / 1st Century CE
#Roman Theatre of Vallebuona, #Volterra #Italy
* Carving of Emperor Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE).
* Carving (marble) of Livia Drusilla (58 BC - 29 AD), the wife of Emperor Augustus.
Now Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
#RomanSiteSaturday
A circular floor mosaic, with a “wheel” design in the centre. Diamond shaped patterns surrounding, formed of inverted triangles with interlace borders.
Roman villa floor mosaic.
Terme of S. Felice, #Volterra #Italy
Discovered in 1884
Another example of the high standard of decoration in Volterra in the Roman period.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
#MosaicMonday #Roman
Robert #Volterra, Londoner Anwalt für Internationales Recht, sagt: Der Plan, russische Staats-Vermögen zu konfiszieren, würde die #EU auf Generationen verfolgen www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-v...
>Die jetzigen Politiker wollen ja jetzt was davon haben, die kommenden Generationen sind wurscht..
Where it all began. The Psychiatric Hospital in Volterra…
#Volterra #LKA #WiredProductions #Psychological #Horror #TheTownOfLight #MarthaIsDead
Museum description- “Polychrome figures of animals, a mask of Tragedy framed by double plaited and wolf teeth pattern borders to form hexagonal frame with the triangular fillings with branches. “
Roman villa floor mosaic.
Porta Fiorentina, #Volterra #Italy
2nd Century CE
The museum emphasised the high standard of decoration in Volterra at beginning of the Second Century.
Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra.
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#MosaicMonday #Roman
Cornelia's dog Jake on the sofa
My dog Jake had surgery on his ear. But today he is almost back to his old self. Which of course means sleeping on the sofa :)
#corneliafunke #volterra #tuscany #dog #surgery #recovery #qualitytime
Christ is removed from the cross as the Virgin Mary & St John the Evangelist support his arms.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, #Volterra
Reputedly produced nearly 800 years ago!
This wooden carving of five figures in “The Deposition from the Cross” was completed by an an anonymous artist in 1228.
The painting of the figures is somewhat later.
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
Sunset with dramatic clouds & the Tyrrhenian Sea in the distance.
Sunset #Cloudscape
#Volterra #Italy
The view over #Tuscany to the Tyrrhenian Sea, with Corsica & Isola di Capraia.
There lives a wonderful Colombian artist in Volterra, Edgard Abadia, who builds mobiles like this one. It hangs in my living room and makes me smile every single day. 🥰
#corneliafunke #volterra #tuscany #artist #colombia #edgardabadia #mobile #babymobile #creativity
Volterra, città etrusca e cuore antico
Volterra non è solo un borgo medievale: è una delle città etrusche più antiche e meglio conservate. Le sue mura, le necropoli e l’Acropoli etrusca raccontano una civiltà raffinata e misteriosa.
#Volterra #Etruschi #CulturaAntica #ToscanaDaScoprire
Metallring mit ca 8 Meter Durchmesser - drumherum Felder
'Metall' #Fotovorschlag
Ring in der Landschaft von #Volterra in der #Toskana
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Sto organizzando una mostra dei miei quadri a Volterra.
È un progetto a cui tengo molto e a breve condividerò tutti i dettagli.
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I’m organizing an exhibition of my paintings in Volterra. It’s a project that means a lot to me. More details coming soon.
#AsepticVoid #Volterra #Art #Painting
Cornelia working on a new "Wimmelbild"
Working on the last of 10 Wimmelbilder for a book. Images in which to get lost and find many tiny surprises 🥰 This one is a bookshelf.
#corneliafunke #volterra #tuscany #hiddenpicturepuzzle #wimmelbild #illustrating #bookproject
