An Etruscan Affair: The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture
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Book
Creator (person)
Swaddling, Judith
Date published
2018
Abstract
This volume considers how the discovery of Etruscan sites and artefacts has inspired artists, architects, statesmen, collectors, scholars and travellers to Italy from the 16th through to the 20th century, from Ferdinando de' Medici to Piranesi and Federico Fellini. Subjects include the reclaiming of Etruscan identity and its influence on Italian political history, the collecting and reproduction of Etruscan artefacts, as well as new insights into the lives and activities of early British Etruscologists and the pleasures and perils which they encountered on their travels. Other essays look at Etruscan concepts in jewellery, gems and pottery. The extent of Etruscan influence on European culture has often been underestimated, but still less well known till now is how knowledge of certain aspects of Etruscan civilisation spread to the United States of America, as demonstrated, for example, by the tomb of a Civil War officer which was inscribed with an intriguing Etruscan-like inscription.
Contributor (person)
Rasmussen, Tom
Bruschetti, Paolo
Camporeale, Giovannangelo
Booms, Dirk
Sarti, Susanna
Hansson, Ulf R.
Haumesser, Laurent
Gialluca, Bruno
de Grummond, Nancy
Rowland, Ingrid
Jolivet, Vincent
Kantor-Kazovsky, Lola
van Kampen, Iefke
Della Fina, Giuseppe M.
Davidson, Peter
Ramage, Nancy Hirschland
Pieraccini, Lisa C.
Editor
Swaddling, Judith
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
Accademia Etrusca di Cortona | |
Institute of Classical Studies | |
Publisher
British Museum
Place of publication
London
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