Full Name: Pallottino, Massimo
Gender: male
Date Born: 1909
Date Died: 1995
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): ancient, archaeology, and Etruscan (culture or style)
Overview
Archaeologist of Etruscan civilization and art. In 1937, Pallottino wrote an article debunking the so-called “Etruscan Warrior” purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (by John Marshall under the direction of Gisela M. A. Richter) as a forgery. Richter remained unconvinced, but Pallottino was ultimately proven correct by the scholar Harold Parsons in 1961. Pallottino pointed out the Greek Hellenized world that Etruscan art emerged from. He wrote the volume on Etruscan Painting (1952) for Albert Skira’s series on Great Centuries of Painting. In 1971 his Civiltà artistica etrusco-italica summarized the previous two generations of work in Italian archaeology.
Selected Bibliography
and Jucker, Hans. Art of the Etruscans. London: Thames and Hudson, 1955; Arte figurativa e ornamentale. Rome: C. Colombo, 1940; Che cos’è l’archeologia. Florence: Sansoni, 1963, English, The Meaning of Archaeology. New York: H. N. Abrams 1968; Etruscan Painting. Geneva: Skira, 1952; Etruscologia. Milan: Hoepli, 1942, English, The Etruscans. David Ridgway, editor. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975; L’orgine degli Etruschi. Rome: Tumminelli, 1947; Mostra dell’Arte e della civiltà etrusca. Milan: Silvana, 1955; Civiltà artistica etrusco-italica. Florence: Sansoni, 1971.
Sources
Brilliant, Richard. “Introduction.” Roman Art: from the Republic to Constantine. New York: Phaidon, 1974, p. 17, mentioned; Tomkins, Calvin. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2nd. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1989, p. 126.