Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria
Author: Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 624
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Author: Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 624
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 582
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 658
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Published: 1843
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray
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Published: 1843
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Otto Brendel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995-10-25
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0300064462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume--the first serious book in English on Etruscan art--was hailed for its broad scope, thorough knowledge, and clear exposition when it was published almost twenty years ago. Now brought back into print with an updated bibliography and bibliographical essay by Francesca R. Serra Ridgway, it remains an essential introduction for anyone interested in ancient art, history, and civilization. Otto Brendel's exploration of the art, culture, and society of Etruria takes us through its four main periods of creativity: the Villanovan and Orientalizing era, the Archaic era, the Classical era, and the Hellenistic era, when Etruscan art became extinct. According to Brendel, the Etruscans were deeply influenced by Greek styles but used Greek forms and concepts to further their own purposes. Etruscan art is a private art, aristocratic and luxurious but centered in the life of the family and a continuing life in the tomb. Many of the art forms and objects discussed--ceramics, metalware, jewelry, sculpture, and wall painting--are known to us through the discovery of tombs. Most of these objects had a clearly defined function but were also designed, with a high degree of quality and craftsmanship, to be decorative. The beautiful art of the Etruscans, illustrated and explained in this book, sheds much light on a people about whom we know little.
Author: Richard Daniel De Puma
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1588394859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 1216
ISBN-13: 1134055234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.
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Total Pages: 1256
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