St. Casciano bronzes go on display in Naples, National Archaeological Museum

The bronzes of San Casciano go on display in Naples: in fact, from Feb. 15 to June 30, 2024, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples is hosting the bronze statues and statuettes, votive offerings and thousands of coins found in the Etruscan and Roman bath sanctuary of Bagno Grande at San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany. The exhibition is titled The Gods Return. The Bronzes of San Casciano and is curated by Jacopo Tabolli and Massimo Osanna.

Preliminary work on the exhibit has already begun at MANN’s restoration laboratories. Considered “peculiar,” the museum says without further specification, is the state of preservation of the finds, which, preserved in hot water, bear important inscriptions in Etruscan and Latin. These extraordinary testimonies make it possible to reconstruct the rituals and cults of the deities worshipped in the great thermal sanctuary of Bagno Grande.

“The artifacts found at San Casciano, in the opinion of many experts, are among the most important archaeological finds in Italy and allow us to reconnect with our most ancient roots. The exhibition in Naples represents an exceptional moment to admire these treasures returned from the earth and water and to live the unique experience of visual and emotional contact with evidence of a past in which the Roman and Etruscan worlds recognized each other through sacred rituals related to thermalism and the purification of body and spirit,” said Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.

“It is a unique opportunity for an extraordinary journey through time that is now expanded in Naples with additional artifacts. With the St. Casciano bronzes, we are now also inaugurating new rooms in the MANN, which have just been restored and are destined to host the museum’s temporary exhibitions,” said the Director General of Museums of the Ministry of Culture, Massimo Osanna.

Pictured: the San Casciano bronzes at the MANN restoration workshop. Photo: Massimo Osanna

St. Casciano bronzes go on display in Naples, National Archaeological Museum

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