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Professor Larissa Bonfante's great gift was 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. Her final publication, 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 - a world very different from our own. Relying on a wealth of creative works, Images and Translations examines the expertise and productions of the artists 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 that made them.
Images and Translations explores areas in much closer economic and cultural contact than is usually recognized. The volume 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.
Contents
Contents
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
