[PDF] A Guide To Etruscan Mirrors eBook

Author : Nancy Thomson de Grummond
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931707862

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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "all relevant illustrations from the book, arranged in alphabetical order according to mythological character. To increase the usefulness of the [CD-ROM], supplementary images not in the book have been added[.]"--P. xv.

Author : Alexandra Ann Carpino
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299189907

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The Etruscans, whose culture flourished in Italy from the late eighth century B.C.E. to the first century B.C.E, produced some of the most sumptuous bronze and silver mirrors found in the ancient Mediterranean. Mirrors with relief decorations on their reverse sides are extremely rare and uniquely Etruscan. Their designs inform us about artistic styles and supplement our understanding of Etruscan culture and taste. The subjects illustrated on the mirrors give important insights into Etruscan mythology, beliefs, and cultural values, filling the vacuum left by the loss of most of their literary record.

Author : L. B. van der Meer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004675884

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This is the first book in which special atten-tion is paid to the Etruscan interpretation of Greek mythical representations on Etruscan bronze mirrors. The book focuses on representations with inscriptions (c. 480-250 B.C.). These epigraphic scenes raise many questions. Did the engravers and patrons understand Greek myths? Were the engravers inspired by visual, oral or literary sources or by a combination thereof? What was their modus operandi? In which art forms can visual precedents be found? Introductory chapters shed light on the status of Etruscan mirrors, their owners, givers and recipients; furthermore production centres, distribution, the influence of Attic and South Italian red figure vases and the shifting interest in themes are discussed. More than one hundred mirror-representa-tions are analysed in chronological order, according to general themes: lovewrestling, abduction, immortality, healing, purification, divination, rescue, birth, rebirth, adoption, rejuvenation, dilemma, contest, victory, the relationship between mother and sons, couples, toilet, music and suicide.

Author : John Franklin Hall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art, Etruscan
ISBN : 9780842523349

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Livy describes the Etruscans as filling the whole of ancient Italy with their power and influence. While Etruscan rule throughout large parts of the Italian peninsula endured for but a few centuries, Etruscan influence was so extensive that in some respects it continues into the present. Outside the Etruscan heartland, Rome itself was perhaps the best preserver of things Etruscan. The fourteen essays comprising this volume explore Etruscan Italy and examine the influence exerted by Etruscan civilization upon the cultures of Italy in Roman and post-Roman times. Represented are contributions from various disciplines which converge to employ multiple methodologies in a comprehensive approach to delineating the enduring themes of Etruscan Italy.

Author : Daniel Weber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
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ABSTRACT: A significant number of bronze mirrors produced by the Etruscans are engraved on their nonreflecting sides, often with scenes illustrating Greek myths. Numerous Hellenistic mirrors present the viewer with a four-figure scene of gods and heroes who can be identified either by Etruscan inscriptions or by their attributes. The Dioskouroi, or Castor and Polydeuces, became popular mythological characters in Etruria and their presence amid the figures in four-figure mirror compositions dating from the fourth and third centuries B.C. is particularly extensive. This study assembles a catalogue of 123 four-figure Dioskouroi conversation mirrors and analyzes their types and iconographical predecessors in an attempt to identify the figures and their meaning. It examines the iconographical tradition associated with the ancient Greek cult of the Dioskouroi, which was adopted by the Etruscans, using literary and archaeological evidence. It traces the cult from its birthplace in Sparta to the Greek colonists of Magna Graecia and eventually to the native Etruscans. The extent to which the Dioskouroi were meaningful to the Etruscans as a decorative motif for bronze mirrors is addressed within the context of the use of these objects. The Judgment of Paris, a popular fourth-century scene on Etruscan mirrors, will be presented as a possible prototype for the four-figure Dioskouroi conversation mirror composition. Lastly, Adobe Photoshop's layering capabilities are employed to adduce evidence supporting the circulation of artists' pattern books illustrating Greek myths among Etruscan mirror workshops.

Author : L. Bouke van der Meer
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This is the first book in which special atten-tion is paid to the Etruscan interpretation of Greek mythical representations on Etruscan bronze mirrors. The book focuses on representations with inscriptions (c. 480-250 B.C.). These epigraphic scenes raise many questions. Did the engravers and patrons understand Greek myths? Were the engravers inspired by visual, oral or literary sources or by a combination thereof? What was their modus operandi? In which art forms can visual precedents be found? Introductory chapters shed light on the status of Etruscan mirrors, their owners, givers and recipients; furthermore production centres, distribution, the influence of Attic and South Italian red figure vases and the shifting interest in themes are discussed. More than one hundred mirror-representa-tions are analysed in chronological order, according to general themes: lovewrestling, abduction, immortality, healing, purification, divination, rescue, birth, rebirth, adoption, rejuvenation, dilemma, contest, victory, the relationship between mother and sons, couples, toilet, music and suicide.

Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1134055234

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The 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.