Synopses & Reviews
This impressive collection brings to light the works of international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience. With new information and assessments about the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the ancient world—the transition between pre-Roman and Roman Italy—these scholars focus on ancient Italy and the wider Mediterranean. Shedding new light on the evidence of well-known and recently excavated sites and the objects they have yielded—their iconography, manufacturing techniques, and afterlives—this collection follows the first archaeological traces of the rise of ancient Italy to its rediscovery in the Renaissance and its reinvention in contemporary fiction, offering a vibrant contribution to classical studies.
Paying tribute to Richard Daniel De Puma, a scholar who has made significant and influential contributions to Etruscan and Roman studies, the contributors to this collection echo the ambition and creativity of his work while offering an up-to-date survey of contemporary Etruscan scholarship. In surveying new developments in both fields, the work collected here represent the diverse, interdisciplinary interests of De Puma as well as areas of recent groundbreaking research.
Review
“[T]estimony to the vitality of Etruscan archaeology and to the truly cooperative nature of the discipline, not only in terms of the scholars who have contributed to these studies but also in the huge diversity of its subject matter.” —Tom Rasmussen, Antiquity
Synopsis
This impressive collection brings to light the works of international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience. With new information and assessments about the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the ancient world—the transition between pre-Roman and Roman Italy—these scholars focus on ancient Italy and the wider Mediterranean.
About the Author
Sinclair Bell is assistant professor of art history at Northern Illinois University. Helen Nagy is professor emerita at the University of Puget Sound.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Sinclair Bell and Helen Nagy
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Tabula Gratulatoria
Bibliography of Works by Richard Daniel De Puma 1. Between Crustumerium and Eretum: Observations on the First Iron Age Phases and the Finds from the Archaic Period
Paolo Togninelli
2. Civitalba and Roman Programs of Commemoration and Unification
Peter J. Holliday
3. Etruscan Cults in Roman Times: The Strange Ruins of Chianciano Terme
David Soren and Erin Nell
4. The Gods in the Circus
Carin Green
5. Far from Etruria: Etruscan Fakes in Japan
Stephan Steingräber
6. "Etruscan" Gold from Cerverteri (and Elsewhere) in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Jean MacIntosh Turfa
7. From Crustumerium: A Proposal against Looting. Loans in Exchange for Resources for Preservation
Francesco di Gennaro
8. How Did Painters Create Near-Exact Copies? Notes on Four Center Paintings from Pompeii
John R. Clarke
9. Is Linear Perspective Necessary?
Jocelyn Penny Small
10. Some Thoughts on the Baubo Gesture in Classical Art
Larissa Bonfante
11. One More Etruscan Couple at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Marjatta Nielsen
12. Dueling Warriors on Two Etruscan Bronze Mirrors from the Fifth Century B.C.E.
Alexandra A. Carpino
13. The Blood of Animals: Predation and Transformation in Etruscan Funerary Representation
P. Gregory Warden
14. The Deified Deceased in Etruscan Culture
Giovannangelo Camporeale
15. On the Origin of the Vanth: Death Harbingers and Banshees in the Etruscan and Celtic Worlds
Anthony Tuck
16. Guests, Hosts, and Politics at Herculaneum
Carol C. Mattusch
17. The Lost Iter Hetruscum of Athanasius Kircher (166578)
Ingrid Rowland
18. Larthi, Turms, and Vel: Real Etruscans in Modern Fiction
Ingrid Edlund-BerryIndex