Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the goal to publish all existing Etruscan

Etruscan civilization

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany. The ancient Romans called its creators the Tusci or Etrusci...

 bronze mirrors. The first volumes were published in 1981 and since then over 25 fascicles have been produced.

Background

The first major systematic study of Etruscan mirror was Eduard Gerhard's Etruskische Spiegel. The work consists of five volumes published between 1843 and 1897 (the final volume being published after Gerhard's death). In 1973 a decision was made to make a new publication that could replace Gerhard's outdated work.

Belgique

1. Bruxelles, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artis- tique; Courtrai, Museum voor Oudheidkunde en Sierkunst; Gand, Museum voor Oudheidkunde der Rijksuniversiteit; Hamme, Museum Van Bogaert-Wauters; Louvain-la-Neuve, Musee de l'Institut Superieure d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de l'Art de l'U.C.L.; Morlanwelz, Musee Royal de Mariemont; Collections privees. Roger Lambrechts 1987. ISBN 88-7062-628-8.

Denmark

1. Copenhagen, the Danish National Museum, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek. Helle Salskov Roberts.

Deutsche Demokratische Republik

1. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikensammlung. Gerald Heres.

2. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung; Leipzig, Museum des Kusthandwerks; Gotha, Schlossmuseum; Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Gerald Heres.

Great Britain

1. The British Museum I. Judith Swaddling 2001.

2. Cambridge. Richard Nicholls 1994. ISBN 0-521-43380-0.

3. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, Claydon House, Pitt Rivers Museum. Nancy Thomson de Grummond 2007. ISBN 9788882654436

The Netherlands

L. Bouke van der Meer

L. Bouke van der Meer

Dr. Lammert Bouke van der Meer is a Dutch classicist and classical archaeologist specialized in etruscology. He studied classics and archaeology at Groningen State University. Van der Meer is retired associate professor of Classical Archaeology at Leiden University, The Netherlands.Van der Meer is...

. 1983. Leiden: E. J. Brill

1. Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum

Allard Pierson Museum

The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...

. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum. The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands. It is located in Leiden. The Museum grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology...

. Nijmegen, Rijksmuseum Kam. Utrecht, Archaeological Institute - State University, Private collection "Meer".

U.S.A.

Larissa Bonfante & Richard Daniel De Puma. Ames: Iowa State University Press

1. Midwestern collections

2. Boston and Cambridge, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...

, Cambridge: Harvard University museums

3. New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

4. Northeastern collections

External links

• Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors at the British Museum