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Started by earl Mauro, upon his death it was inherited by his brother Claudio who, in turn, entrusted his nephew Eugenio with the task of looking after it; the latter decided to move the collection from the family palace in Perugia to Orvieto, thereby also changing the collection orientation. In fact, rather than buying antiquities in art markets, Eugenio oriented his interest towards the findings that were being brought to light in the 1870s and 1880s thanks to the feverish excavation activity in Orvieto's necropolis. The collection was left by Claudio junior to the Municipality of Orvieto in 1954, together with all his properties, in order to fund the Fondazione per il Museo "Claudio Faina", an entity that deals with the management and conservation of these precious works of art still today. The collection includes a rich coin cabinet, prehistoric and protohistoric materials, buccheri, Etruscan bronze and ceramic items, Attic vases with red and black figures, amongst which three beautiful amphorae are attributed to Exekias, the main Attic potter in the black-figure technique.
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