Etruscan Art

Pdf / English / 103 pages / 1966 / 20 MB

Never before has Etruscan art enjoyed its present-day popularity. Heretofore the general public, and even some museum curators, had little interest in the vast collections of works of art from ancient Etruria, and many valuable objects were relegated to the dark corners of cabinets or placed in storerooms. Today all this has changed. Etruscan art occupies a place of unquestioned importance among the arts of antiquity. Its astonishing development in Tuscany nearly two thousand years before the Renaissance is no longer known only to scholars, but has fascinated critics and many others interested in art.