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Images and Translations - The Etruscans Abroad (Hardcover)
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Images and Translations - The Etruscans Abroad (Hardcover)
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
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Professor Larissa Bonfante’s great gift is the ability to evoke
in a fresh, immediate, and convincing way the experiences, beliefs,
and thoughts of people living more than two thousand years ago.
Images and Translations: The Etruscans Abroad communicates the
sensations of other times and places, from the day to day to the
solemnly ritualistic. The world of the Etruscans, sophisticated and
pleasure-loving, radiated throughout a vast area of the ancient
world. Starting from works of art created by individuals of ages
very different from our own, Bonfante examined the expertise and
production of the artists and artisans who made them, the tastes of
those who used them, and the sometimes surprising results of the
exchanges between creators and buyers. Just as the French demand
for Chinese ceramics in the seventeenth century gave birth to the
unprecedented famille colors, so the production of Greek ceramics
for the Etruscan market produced singularly expressive depictions.
Humorous, pious, or erotic to the buyers, they could be shocking to
the culture who made them. Images and Translations explores areas
in much closer economic and cultural contact than is usually
recognized. Following traces and transformations, this book finds
threads of connection not only between Italy and Greece, but
between Italy and northern Europe—today’s France and
Germany—as well as between Italy and the Near East. Etruscan
influence runs through Western history, into the Renaissance, and
emerges in imagery still evocative today.
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