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Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance (1922)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Andersen, Ingeborg, 1887- · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 30

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ife and Death and Eternity. Only in theanimal friezes beneath the painted roof-supports does theold decorative conception of the human and animal figurestill linger ; elsewhere the pictures now have content andmeaning. We may take the Tomba degli Auguri in Corneto, ^ Poulsen, Orient, p. 67. other… … o<: o Q < o M O <: TOMBA DEGLIA U G U R I ii discovered in 1878, as our starting-point. There are coloureddrawings as well as full-sized facsimiles of its pictures in theHelbig Museum. The middle of the back wall of this tomb is occupied bya painted door flanked by two men in white chitons…

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