The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 95
theastonishing paintings in the so-called Tomb of Frangois at Volsci, repre-senting Achilles offering sacrifices ofTrojan prisoners to appease the manesof Patroclus (Fig. 120). The subjectis Greek, but the treatment isthoroughly Etruscan; the Charon, The name of a professional excavator,who worked… … FIG. 121. ETRUSCAN SARCOPH.^GUS. Known as the Lydian Tomb.(The Louvre.) a proof that he was inspired bysome old myth peculiar to the West.The style has something of the pre-cision and of the harsh vigour thatappear some eighteen centuries laterin the frescoes of Mantegna at Padua,and of Signorelli…
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