"The Villanovan and Etruscan collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts not only represent an important source of Classical Antiquity in the United States, but also serve as a historical model of how such artifacts were acquired by large American museums from the late-nineteen…
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.
Etruscan and early Roman architecture
by Boëthius, Axel, Boëthius, Axel
fromThe Pelican history of art
"L'Italie centrale et septentrionale, à la veille de la romanisation, apparaît comme une mosaïque de peuples et cet ouvrage cherche à comprendre ce qu'est un peuple dans l'Italie préromaine, à la fois dans sa réalité et dans son image. Les peuples se manifestent avant tout comme…
"This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiqu…
"This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiqu…
