Museo Civico Archeologico - Luigi Ferdinando Marsili - Statue of an Etruscan devotee

Combining a military career with a deep love of science, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730) between 1711 and 1714 donated his collections of books, instruments, natural objects and objects of ‘ancient erudition’ to the city of Bolognan and encouraged the Bolognese Senate to create the Istituto delle Scienze, a public place for research, where for the first time antiquities found their own space. These include the big Etruscan statue of a devotee, linked to health cults.