Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 337
color of the clay; sometimes a little red is introduced onthe black ground of the drapery. It is by the subject chieflythat the Etruscan vases are distinguished from the Greek vases.On the former, the figures are in the costume peculiar to ancientItaly; the men and the heroes are represented with… … ETRUSCAN VASE. GREEK VASES. 325 manners, arms, and symbols, different from those of Greece.Etruscan deities, such as Charun with his mace, denote theirEtruscan origin; the subjects of the vases are, however, generallyderived from Greek mythology, treated in a manner consonant tothe Etruscan taste,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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