Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, also known as ETRU, is a museum dedicated to Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations housed in the premises of Villa Giulia in Rome. This splendid building was constructed in the mid-16th century at the behest of Pope Julius III as a summer residence and over the years, great artists such as Vasari, Ammannati, Vignola, and Michelangelo worked on it. The most famous artwork housed in the museum is the terracotta funerary monument known as the Sarcofago degli Sposi, which depicts a nearly life-size couple reclining in a luminous convivial or symposium pose.