Chapter 9 - Etruscan Art
From: Brendel, Otto F. Etruscan Art. New York: Penquin Books. 1978.
1. Cf. above, Chapter 1. For the later history of Greeks and Etruscans in Italy see M. Pallottino, Etruscologia, 6th ed. [Milan, 1968], chapters 3 and 4
2. Riis, 194-6 and note 6 on p. 194, note 1 on p. 196. A typical instance is the group of vases known as Caeretan hydriac, for which see below, pp. 171-4.
3. Above, Chapter 7, p. 95.
4. To name one outstanding example: the Tomb of the Attic Vases, the richest find of Greek imported ceramics in the necropolis of Cerveteri [Caere], contained materials dating from the first half of the sixth to the end of the fifth century; R. Vighi, G. Ricci, M. Moretti in Monumenti Antichi, XLII [1955], cols. 241-310.
5. Below, Chapter 11, pp. 134-5.
6. For the problems of periodization in Etruscan art and its synchronization with Greek art cf. also the chronological urvey in Riis, 188-204.
7. Among the tomb groups illustrating the transition from the Late Orientalizing to the Archaic period, the most notable is the so-called Isis Tomb from the Polledrara cemetery near Vulci. Possibly the bust of a lady of sheet bronze [above, Chapter 8, illustration 71], formed part of its contents. Certainly the large Early Archaic statuette of alabaster discussed by F.N. Pryce, Catalogue of Sculpture in the . . . British Museum. Cypriotte and Etruscan, 1 [London, 1931], D1 [below, Chapter 11, illustration 80], came from this tomb. Other items are the elaborately decorated ostrich eggs, painted like modern Easter eggs, shown in Ducati, 11, plate 74, figures 220-4. Imported objects from the south-eastern Mediterranean include a scarab with the name of the pharaoh Psammetichus II [593-588] and three balsam flasks now in the Britsh Museum [Pryce, op. cit., D2-4; see also idem, Journal of Roman Studies, XXV [1935], 246-7; P. J. Riis, 'Sculptured Alabastra', Acta Archeologica, XXVII [1956], 25 no. 3, 28 nos. 1 and 2; S. Haynes, Antike Kunst, VI, 1 [1963], 4 and note 9]. Other oriental imports in tomb groups of the early sixth century: Camera degli Alari in the Tomb of the Dolia at Caere, R. Vighi and F. Minissi, Il nuovo museo di Villa Giulia [Rome, 1953], 47; G. Ricci, Monumenti Antichi, XLII [1955], cols. 337-8 figure 69, col. 342 figure 71; Tomb of the Attic Vases, ibid., cols. 295-6 figures 49-50; Vighi and Minissi, op. cit., 49.
8. Excellent specimen of a Clazomenian hydria from Caere: G. Ricci, 'Una hydria ionica da Caere', Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene, XXIV/XXVI [1946/8], 47-57, plates 3-6. Caeretan hydriae: above, Note 2. For both classes of vases cf. the bibliography in A. Rumpf, Maerei und Zeichnung [Munich, 1953], 67-9.
9. The theory of Phocaean infleunce on Etruscan Archaic art was first expounded by A. Furtwängler, Antike Gemmen [Leipzig and Berlin, 1900], 111, 89-90. Bibliography in Andrén, cxlix, note 4. The Ionic phase of Etruscan Archaic art outlasted the Phocaean colonization of the Tyrrhenian Sea: Riis, 148.
[Brendel, Otto F. Etruscan Art. New York: Penquin Books. 1978.]
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