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Classics 456 Dr. Soren
Greek and Roman Painting and Mosaics
Lecture 12: Etruscan Painting
A. Periods of Time in Etruscan Italy
l. Archaic I- Before the Etruscans developed, beginning of
Iron Age
- Archaic II- Before Etruscans, development of Iron Age
Villanovans
- Archaic III- 675-600 B.C. arrival of the Etruscans, period
of Near Eastern influence, Orientalizing style
- The Archaic Period- 600-500 B.C. period of Etruscan
expansion into north and south Italy, increasing
Greek artistic influence
- Classical Period- 500-300 B.C., Greek influence, golden
age of Athens, Etruscans begin to slip
- Hellenistic Period-300-30 B.C. dark days in Etruria,
Roman absorption
B. The Etruscan City of Veii- The Campana Tomb
l. Published 1915 by Andreas Rumpf
2. Mixture of styles but lively and vibrant- lioness and cubs,
boy on horseback amid tiny leopards, sphinx with seated
lion
3. Neo-Hittite sickle wings on sphinx and men's kilt
4. Attic horse mane
5. Corinthian long legged animals
6. Etruscan joie de vivre- horror vacui
7. Compare this with Thermon in Aetolia at the Temple
of Apollo
C. The Boccanera Slabs from Caere- now in the British
Museum
l. Circa 570 B.C.- first Italian paintings to tell a clear
story
2. Women wear Corinthian garments
3. Painted terracotta- pinakes leleukomenoi as invented by
Kraton of Sicyon
4. White undercoating and incise in details of figures
5. R. Mengarelli in the Studi Etrusci 1927
6. Archaic forms- pointed beard, strict profile, overlarge
feet, almond sideways eye, no foreshortening
D. The Campana Slabs of Caere- now in the Louvre, ca. 520
B.C.
l. Massive confident figures with smooth contours parallel
Caeretan hydriai and very Ionian looking
Caeretan hydriai are a particularly colourful type of Greek vase painting. Their geographic origin is disputed by scholars, but in recent years the view that they were produced by two potter-painters who had emigrated from East Greece to Caere in Etruria has gained ground. Based on their style, they were for the longest time considered as either Etruscan or Corinthian products. However, added inscriptions in Ionic Greek support the hypothesis of immigration. The workshop only lasted for one generation. By now, about 40 vases of the style are known, all produced by the two masters and their assistants. None were discovered outside Etruria. The majority were excavated in Caere, after which site they were named by Carl Humann and Otto Puchstein. They are dated to between about 530 and 510/500 BC.
2. Deceased transported by winged Vanth
E. Tarquinia- great site for Etruscan painting in tombs
l. Corneto
2. Vittorio Masi and Barons Stackelberg and Kestner
3. Notizie degli Scavi
4. Studi Etruschi
5. Monumenti della pittura antica scoperti in Italia
6. Carlo Lerici
F. Tarquinian Research
l. Mario Moretti
2. Pericle Ducati
3. H. Bulle
4. R. Bartoccini
G. Tomb of the Bulls- ca. 540 B.C. G. Korte, Tarquinia
l. Troilus- son of Hecuba and Priam of Troy exercises
horses by well
2. Polyxena absent
3. Achilles
4. Etruscans do not copy very well- careless and sloppy
5. P. Zancani Montuoro- why use this scene
6. Compare with Greek painting of South Italy such as
Paestum's Tomb of the Diver-- less paesaggio, more
megalographic in Greek South Italian work
7. Compare Kleophrades painter of Red Figured Greek
vases of early fifth century B.C.
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