Catalogue Of The Etruscan Gallery Of The University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology

Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536254

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Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by Jean MacIntosh Turfa Pdf

Combining a guide for the Museum visitor with scholarly discussions of all objects on display, this catalogue provides background on the society, history, technology, and commerce of the Etruscan and Faliscan cultures from the ninth through the first centuries B.C. Several groups of material illustrate social, historical, and technological phenomena currently at the forefront of scholarly debate and study, such as the crucial period of the turnover from Iron Age hut villages to the fully urbanized princely Etruscan cities, the development and extent of ancient literacy, and the position of women and children in ancient societies. Many special objects seldom found or generally inaccessible in the United States include Faliscan tomb groups, Etruscan inscriptions, helmets, and trade goods. The catalogue presents and analyzes objects of warfare, weaving, animals, religious beliefs, architectural and terracotta roofing ornaments, Etruscan bronze-working for utensils, weapons, and artwork, and fine, generic portraiture. It discusses the symbolic meaning of such objects deposited in tombs as a chariot buried with a Faliscan lady at Narce, a senator's folding stool buried in a later tomb at Chiusi, and a pair of horse bits with the teeth of a chariot team still adhering to them where the teeth fell when sacrificed for a funeral in the fifth-century necropolis at Tarquinia—much later than the horse sacrifice was previously known in Etruria.

Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Donald White
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1931707383

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Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Donald White Pdf

"Lavishly illustrated with 117 color images, 2 maps, and 15 black and white photographs, and including list of readings and an index, the Guide will be of interest to both general Museum visitors and scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Margarita Gleba,Hilary Becker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004170452

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Votives, Places, and Rituals in Etruscan Religion by Margarita Gleba,Hilary Becker Pdf

By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

Author : Irene Bald Romano
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781934536292

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Classical Sculpture by Irene Bald Romano Pdf

This first complete published catalogue of one of the most important classical sculpture collections in the United States includes 154 works from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, North Africa, Roman Syria and Palestine, Egypt, and Babylonia, ranging in date from the late seventh century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Each piece receives a complete description with measurements and report of condition, a list of the previous published sources, and a commentary reflecting the most recent scholarship, along with extensive photographic documentation. Various audiences will appreciate the accessibility of the scholarship presented here—students may engage in further study on some of topics raised by individual pieces or groups of sculptures, and the scholarly community will welcome a work that provides an up-to-date and comprehensive examination of a significant classical sculpture collection in one of the world's great archaeology museums.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199802852

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Etruscans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Jeann MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina Muskett
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916398

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Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool by Jeann MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina Muskett Pdf

A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.

Author : Richard Daniel De Puma,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394859

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Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Richard Daniel De Puma,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina M. Muskett
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art, Etruscan
ISBN : 1784916382

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Catalogue of Etruscan Objects in World Museum, Liverpool by Jean MacIntosh Turfa,Georgina M. Muskett Pdf

A catalogue of one of the finest collections of Etruscan artifacts outside of Italy, that of Wold Museum, Liverpool. This publication is highly illustrated with over 100 plates in full colour.

Author : Sinclair Bell,Alexandra A. Carpino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118352748

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A Companion to the Etruscans by Sinclair Bell,Alexandra A. Carpino Pdf

This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans’ reception of ponderation, and more Counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity

Author : Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479818686

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Vernacular Religion by Deborah Dash Moore Pdf

A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studies In 1995, Leonard Norman Primiano introduced the idea of “vernacular religion.” He coined this term to overcome the denigration implied in the concept of “folk religion” or “popular religion,” which was juxtaposed to “elite religion.” This two-tiered model suggested that religion existed somewhere in a pure form and that the folk version transforms it. Instead, Primiano urged scholars to adopt an inductive approach to the study of religion and to pay attention to experiential aspects of belief systems, ultimately redressing a heritage of scholarly misinterpretation. Here for the first time, Leonard Norman Primiano’s pioneering works have been collected into one volume, providing a foundational look at one of the preeminent scholars of twentieth-century religious studies. Vernacular Religion makes visible the dimensions of vernacular religion in North America, exemplifying the richness of its ability to explain key facets of American society, including especially thorny issues around race and sexuality. The volume also demonstrates a method of abiding engagement, the creation of ongoing relationships with those who are studied, and how the relationship between scholars and the communities they study inform an ethics of critical commitment—what Primiano calls an “ethnography of collaboration and reciprocity.” This posthumous collection, edited by Deborah Dash Moore, brings together key studies in vernacular religion that explore its expression among such varied groups as Catholics, LGBTQ Christians, and the followers of Father Divine. Vernacular Religion models empathetic ethnographic engagement that embraces American religion in all its rich diversity, illuminating Primiano’s enduring legacy.

Author : Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134055234

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The Etruscan World by Jean MacIntosh Turfa Pdf

The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.

Author : David Caccioli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789047425779

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The Villanovan, Etruscan, and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts by David Caccioli Pdf

This catalogue brings together for the first time the wide-ranging Villanovan and Etruscan collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts with photographs and relevant bibliographic sources on their cultural and religious functions in antiquity.

Author : Marshall J. Becker,Jean MacIntosh Turfa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317194651

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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry by Marshall J. Becker,Jean MacIntosh Turfa Pdf

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry.

Author : Faya Causey
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066355

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Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Faya Causey Pdf

First published in 2012, this catalogue presents fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the Getty Museum's collection—the second largest body of this material in the United States and one of the most important in the world. The ambers date from about 650 to 300 BC. The catalogue offers full description of the pieces, including typology, style, chronology, condition, and iconography. Each piece is illustrated. The catalogue is preceded by a general introduction to ancient amber (which was also published in 2012 as a stand-alone print volume titled Amber and the Ancient World). Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and legends woven around amber—its employment in magic and medicine, its transport and carving, and its incorporation into jewelry, amulets, and other objects of prestige. This publication highlights a group of remarkable amber carvings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. This catalogue was first published in 2012 at museumcatalogues.getty.edu/amber/. The present online edition of this open-access publication was migrated in 2019 to www.getty.edu/publications/ambers/; it features zoomable, high-resolution photography; free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; and JPG downloads of the catalogue images.

Author : Nassos Papalexandrou
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477323632

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Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder by Nassos Papalexandrou Pdf

The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period’s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually possesses the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. In particular, bronze cauldrons bore griffin protomes—figurative attachments showing the neck and head of the beast. Crafted in fine detail, the protomes were made to appear full of vigor, transfixing viewers. Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder takes griffin cauldrons as case studies in the shifting material and visual universes of preclassical antiquity, arguing that they were perceived as lifelike monsters that introduced the illusion of verisimilitude to Mediterranean arts. The objects were placed in the tombs of the wealthy (Italy, Cyprus) and in sanctuaries (Greece), creating fantastical environments akin to later cabinets of curiosities. Yet griffin cauldrons were accessible only to elites, ensuring that the new experience of visuality they fostered was itself a symbol of status. Focusing on the sensory encounter of this new visuality, Nassos Papalexandrou shows how spaces made wondrous fostered novel subjectivities and social distinctions.