Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for ...

This exhibition draws from artworks at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient ...

Italian authorities have seized an illegal excavation site of an Etruscan necropolis between the Tuscan towns of Chiusi and Città della Pieve. They recovered several objects bound for the black market ...

The exhibition explores the origins of Etruscan civilization with objects drawn from the permanent collection of the Museum. Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Bowdoin Collection opens ...

Etruria: the land and its settlement -- Prehistory: the Villanovans -- The beginning of history: the orientalizing period -- A summary of Etruscan history from Tarquin the First to Augustus -- The art ...

Italian art police have recovered numerous Etruscan artifacts initially looted from a necropolis in central Italy. (all photos © Emanuele Antonio Minerva, courtesy ...

The Etruscan custom of writing on linen has left little for scholars to pick over. We have no Etruscan histories, philosophies, or epics and so—ignoring the often-disparaging commentaries produced by ...

Firstly, very few similar objects ("comparanda") have been discovered in Etruscan or Ancient Greek art, making it difficult to draw insightful comparisons. Secondly, the lamp lacks context, having ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more than 2,500 years ago. Now, it is possible to do so from a computer, even a ...

Photo: A. Sbaffi and E. A. Minerva; Courtesy Ministero della Cultura Italy has unveiled an exhibition showcasing some of the finest surviving examples of Etruscan painting, marking the first public ...

What we know about the Etruscan civilization, we learned from art found in its tombs. Centuries before Rome, a mysterious Etruscan civilization ruled northern Italy. What we know about it we learned ...

The Phoebe A. Hearst Collection, UC Berkeley’s art historical material archive, unveiled nearly 3,000-year-old artifacts in a new exhibit centering the Estrucan culture of ancient Italy. The exhibit, ...