Guglielmo Maetzke (
Florence
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, 12 July 1915 - 19 March 2008) was an Italian
archaeologist
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and
etruscologist. A pupil of the Etruscologist
Massimo Pallottino
Massimo Pallottino (9 November 1909 in Rome – 7 February 1995 in Rome) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art.
Biography
Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on ...
, he directed important excavation campaigns in
Tuscany
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Campania
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and
Sardinia
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.
Biography
In
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
he founded the ''Soprintendenza archeologica per le province di Sassari e Nuoro'' (Archaeological Superintendence for the provinces of Sassari and Nuoro) in
Sassari
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, of which he was the first director. From 1966 to 1980 he was director of the ''Soprintendenza alle antichità dell'Etruria'' (Superintendence of Antiquities of Etruria). He was also president of the
Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici
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and president of the
Accademia Etrusca
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* The Galleria dell'Accademia, an art museum in Florence
* The Gallerie dell'Accademia, an art museum in Venice
Accademia may also refer to:
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* The Accademia Carrara di Belle ...
of
Cortona
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Toponymy
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.
Publications
*Patrizia Gastaldi, Guglielmo Maetzke, ''La Presenza etrusca nella Campania meridionale : atti delle giornate di studio'', Salerno-Pontecagnano, 16-18 novembre 1990,
Leo S. Olschki Editore
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, Firenze, 1994.
*Guglielmo Maetzke, Istituto nazionale di studi etruschi ed italici, Luisa Tamagno Perna, ''La Coroplastica Templare Etrusca Fra Il IV E Il II Secolo A.C.: Atti Del XVI, Convegno Di Studi Etruschi e Italici'', Orbetello, 25-29 april 1988, edition L.S. Olschki, 1992
*Mario Moretti, Guglielmo Maetzke, ''The Art of the Etruscans'', publication Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 1970.
Bibliography
* A. Minetti, G. Paolucci (a cura di), ''Grandi archeologi del Novecento. Ricerche tra Preistoria e Medioevo nell'Agro Chiusino'', Toscana Beni Culturali, n. 13, 2010, pp. 101–104.
* ''Dizionario biografico dei soprintendenti archeologi (1904-1974)'', Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2012.
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1915 births
2008 deaths
Classical archaeologists
Linguists of Etruscan
Italian archaeologists