Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1397 g
The Etruscans Abroad
Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1397 g
Reihe: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-472-13197-6
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
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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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
Weitere Infos & Material
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editor’s Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 An Alphabet of Images: Greek and Etruscan Myth
- Chapter 2 Families and Gender
- Etruscan Women
- Men and Women
- The Etruscan Upper Class
- The Use of Myths
- Etruscan Mirrors: Reflections of Marriage
- Etruscan Couples
- Gestures of Love
- Mothers, Myth, and Metaphor
- Toddlers and Children
- Women’s Literacy
- Chapter 3 What Happened to the Kouros?
- The Celtic World
- The Greek Model
- Etruscan Transformations
- Etruscan Ancestors
- The Kouros Goes North
- Celtic Burials
- Chapter 4 Amber, Runes, and Situla Art
- Amber
- Runes
- The Chiusi Connection and the Gauls
- Situla Art
- Situla Motifs
- Chapter 5 The Final Journey
- Tombs and Houses
- Ancestors
- Writing and the Dead
- Angels and Demons
- Erotic Art
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Boundaries, Human and Divine
- Journey to the Afterworld
- Blood for the Dead: Human Sacrifice
- Afterlife and the Underworld
- Chapter 6 Echoes from Classical Antiquity, Some of Them Etruscan
- Etruscans in Rome
- Christian Symbols
- Romanesque Art
- The Renaissance
- Classical Nudity and Its Power
- Conclusions and Controversies
- References
- Illustration Sources
- Index
