I bronzi della collezione Faina: dal museo tradizionale al museo virtuale

Th e Faina collection was started in 1864 by to two important members of the family: the counts Mauro and Eugenio. Mauro Faina was responsible for the collection until 1868, when, after his death, it was inherited by his nephewEugenio. Th e collection preserves around one thousand diff erent bronze objects, which date from the Bronze Age upthe Roman period. Th e majority of these items are votive bronzes and vases. After a brief description of the history ofthe Faina collection, the paper focuses on a selection of bronzes, with particular reference to the production of Chiusiand Orvieto, the ancient centers from which most of the bronzes come. Th e fi nal paragraph is dedicated to the digitaldatabase named "Sethlans. Bronzi del Museo Faina" (http://bronzifaina.ispc.cnr.it/), recently renewed with the free andopen-source web content management system Drupal. Th e website is organized with some general pages devoted to thehistory of the Orvietan collection, some more detailed pages dedicated to the most important items and with a databaseoff ering a synthetic analysis of the Faina bronzes and links to other databases in the web.