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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Etruscan"”.
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The Etruscan Aphrodite
Most of the Etruscan heroes and deities depicted in Etruscan visual arts were borrowed from the Greek mythological corpus complete with divine attributes and iconography: Heracles wields his club, Athena, her aegis, and Perseus pursues Medusa. These are all standard images with few changes apparent …
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Visualizing Vulci: Reimagining an Etruscan-Roman City
<p>The Etruscan-Roman city of Vulci is one of many Etruscan cities which lacks a detailed and holistic understanding of its urban development. Vulci represents a rare site that was not covered by modern structures and thus presents a unique opportunity for a city-scale examination of the …
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Feeding the Etruscans - An Archaeobotanical study of Etruscan Agriculture
… A major participant in these dynamics was the Etruscans of central Italy. Here centralisation processes at the beginning of the millennium gave birth to urban centres that ultimately developed into city states from which not only vast hinterlands, but also maritime exchange were controlled. …
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An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome
… with ancient Etruria is underappreciated. The Etruscan legacy was a source of special pride for Renaissance Tuscans, who sought in the ancient civilization a pristine ancestry which rivaled Rome with its great antiquity, piety, and strength. Consequently, to proclaim the Etruscan origins of …
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The Temple Terracottas of Etruscan Orvieto: A Vision of the Underworld in the Art and Cult of Ancient Volsinii
Incorporating both Etruscan as well as Greek myth, the themes selected for their cultic structures may also have been reflected in numerous locally produced small-scale works, many with ritual connotations which highlights the consistency in the visual language employed by local artists in the …
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Invisible Etruscans: a study on rural landscape and settlement organisation during the urbanisation of Etruria (7th - 5th centuries BC)
… Despite responding to similar stimuli, Etruscan centres adopted different strategies to control their lands and benefit from them. Urbanisation was however also met with resistance. These approaches led to a variety of ways of acting, reacting to and experiencing urbanisation, and have …
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Origins of Roman art
… which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial inspirations. In order to illuminate some of these cultural-historical processes I used several comparisons to …
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Textile Production Tools from the Excavations at Caere, 2012 — 2014.
… from the 2012–2014 excavations at Caere, an Etruscan city northwest of Rome. While all textile tool finds — loom weights, spools, and spindle whorls — are presented, the discussion is focused on complete loom weights. The likely loom set-up, thread type, and appearance of the final fabric are …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
… folklore to popular piety in Florida, from Etruscan tomb painting to installation art, but key monuments like Hagia Sophia and the Cornaro Chapel offer case studies for in-depth analysis.
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The iconography of ancient Greek and Roman jewellery
… be traced back to a single or various deities. Etruscan jewellery, however, is more abstract and rich in stylised shapes and forms; at the same time, Etruscan goldsmiths placed much more emphasis on the decoration of (gold) surfaces, resulting in often globular or convex forms with intricate …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… a particular focus on his travel writing on the Etruscan civilization and his essays on Cézanne. Chapter 2 examines the collective discourse and imagery of touch in Alfred Stieglitz and his artistic circle, including Max Weber, Waldo Frank, Paul Rosenfeld, and William Carlos Williams. Chapter 3 …
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The Gorgoneion in Greek Architecture
… This is most obvious in the Near Eastern and Etruscan funerary association which may have influenced the Greeks in the 4th century and the Hellenistic period.</p>
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Black Gloss Ceramics From Cerveteri: The Vigna Marini Project 2012
The purpose of this thesis is threefold: to catalogue the black gloss ceramics excavated by the Vigna Marini project in Cerveteri in 2012; to understand the relationship between Rome and Caere in terms of ceramic production, especially in the third century BCE; and to highlight the importance of …
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Etrusco-Italic Herclé: a study in the formation of image, cult, and regional identity
My dissertation traces the Italic roots for the iconographies and roles of Herakles in central and northern Italy (i.e., Etrusco-Italic Herclé) prior to Roman hegemony (ca. 1000-300 BCE). The thesis begins with the premise that this hero-god, commonly known as Herclé, after his Greek namesake, may …
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Literature, interarts, and multimodality in the narrative of Seán Virgo: a transmedial inquiry into pictorial, architectural, theatrical, musical, and iconotextual tranfers
… and representation since Horace, Timanthes and Etruscan models of art; (2.3) the anamorphic potential of the picturebook plate on adult revision. This latter pursuit will lead the inquiry into a lavish tradition of anamorphism -i.e. from Zeuxis, Arcimboldo, Shakespeare or Quevedo- to demonstrate …