Chapter 22 - Etruscan Art
From: Brendel, Otto F. Etruscan Art. New York: Penquin Books. 1978.
1. M. Moretti, Tarquinia. La Tomba della Nave [Milan, 1961].
2. This group of paintings will be discussed further: see pp. 269-74, The Eternal Banquet.
3. H. Leisinger, Malerei der Etrusker [Stuttgart, 1954], 78-80. See also below, p . 266 and Note 9.
4. Two pairs of pillows are placed on the couch. Each pair is surmounted by headgear resting on a wreath; one apparently represents the conical hat of a woman. This assemblage of objects may refer, symbolically, to the matrimonial bed, the lectus genialis, but the stereotype of the dining couple on a couch, so popular in Etruscan Late Archaic and Classical art, could also be involved; though the imagery differs, it might have evoked the same idea. As yet no certain decision can be made, except that obviously the empty bed, towering like a catafalque, was the object of the cerremony. See also: Pallottino, 82.
[Brendel, Otto F. Etruscan Art. New York: Penquin Books. 1978.]
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