Abundance of Life : Etruscan Wall Painting

by: Steingraber, S.

Price: 129,00 EURO

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 Etruscan civilisation flourished from the 8th to the 3rd centuries BC. Etruscan wall paintings are the most important examples of pre-Roman painting in the West. This title traces the stylistic and iconographic evolution of these paintings. It examines what the paintings reveal about the daily life, politics, and religion of this ancient society.

Table of Contents
x Foreward
x Introduction
x The Beginnings: The Etrusco-Geometric (or Early Orientalizing) Period (end of the eighth century-650 B.C.)
x Asian and Corinthian Influences: The Orientalizing Period (650-575 B.C.)
x The First Major Flowering and the "Ionic Koine": The Archaic Period (575-480 B.C.)
x Between Traditionalism and Innovation: The Sub-Archaic and Classical Periods (480-400 B.C.)
x The Great Changes: The Late Classical Period (400-330/20 B.C.)
x Final Flowering and Conclusion: The Early and High Hellenistic Period (330/320-end of the third/beginning of the second century B.C.)
x From Asia Minor to Magna Graecia, from Thrace to Alexandria: The "Koine" and the Place of Etruscan Painting in the Art of the Ancient Mediterranean
Appendixes
x Chronology
x Register of Painted Etruscan Tombs
x Plans of Tombs
x Glossary
x Bibliography
x Ancient Literary Sources
x Prosopographic Index of Family Names from Hellenistic Tarquinia
Indexes

Mural painting and decoration, Etruscan.
Tombs -- Decoration -- Etruria.

Abundance of Life : Etruscan Wall Painting

by: Steingraber, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780892368655 / 978-0-89236-865-5
• ISBN-03: 0892368659 / 0-89236-865-9
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2007

Price: 129,00 EURO

1 copy in stock