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View a Sampling of The Getty Center's New Life of Art Exhibit on iPad

148Apps - Feb 16, 2012
By Lisa Caplan on February 16th, 2012 California's famed J. Paul Getty Museum houses one of the great collections of Greco-Roman and Etruscan art in its Palisades' Villa and a vast array of objects d'art from the middle ages to the present day at the ...

For Art Gala winner, good luck came in threes

Keizertimes - Feb 15, 2012
Among her accomplishments is a stint studying at the Etruscan Art School in Italy. And although the idea of studying art in Italy sounds serene, it was anything but. “It was fascinating to go to the museums and paint, but they had these rains every ...

Upstart Paris Gallery Scores Coup With German Exhibit: Review

BusinessWeek - Jan 30, 2012
Shows with odd mismatches -- Pollock and shamanism, Giacometti and Etruscan art -- haven't improved its image. Still, the Pinacotheque repeatedly has succeeded in getting important loans and mounting exhibitions that, while bashed by the critics, ...

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Etruscan Art books

The Etruscans: Art, Architecture, and History

by: Federica Borrelli, Maria Cristina Targia
Beginning in the eighth century B.C., an expanse of central Italy extending from the edges of the Po River plain to the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea became the setting for the civilization of the Etruscans. Although this people's geographic and linguistic origins remain controversial, the Etruscans were deeply rooted in the region and wove a tightly knit fabric of commercial and artistic trade throughout the Mediterranean.
This well-organized and richly illustrated book examines the discoveries and masterpieces of the Etruscan world.
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Etruscan Art

by: Nigel Jonathan Spivey

Recent discoveries and new scholarship bring the Etruscan world vividly to life.

The Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the search for this mysterious civilization continues to fire the imagination. Despite a history of pillage, rich archaeological evidence survives: thousands of tombs, many of them frescoed and filled with vases, sculpture, jewelry, and metalwork; and the mysterious Etruscan sites that are places of tourist pilgrimage, such as Cerveteri, Vulci, and Tarquinia.
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The Art of Etruria and Early Rome

by: Guido Achille Mansuelli

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The Fish-Tailed Monster in Greek and Etruscan Art

by: Katharine Shepard
Fish-tailed creatures and deities are found in the art of several ancient cultures: bronzes, carvings, coins, mosaics, and more. Katharine Shepard's 1940 thesis explores the scope, history, and evolution of this theme, particularly focusing on the Greek and Etruscan civilizations.
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