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Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Andersen, Ingeborg, 1887- · 1922 · Oxford, Clarendon Press · 47 pictures

Frederik Poulsen's 1922 archaeological study of Etruscan tomb frescoes, translated by Ingeborg Andersen and published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford for classicists and art historians. Halftone plates reproduce painted chamber walls: banqueters on couches, dancers and lyre players, funeral games, winged demons, horses and hunting scenes, framed by chequer bands, zigzags and wave borders useful as flat silhouette figures and ornament strips.

Tombs · Art, Etruscan

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