The Etruscans

A landmark introduction to Etruscan art and society filled with groundbreaking insights and never-before-published artworksThe Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy introduces a culture that flourished in ancient Etruria in Italy from the ninth to second centuries BCE. Renowned for their beauty and craftsmanship, the nearly two hundred artworks in this book offer fascinating insight into Etruscan society through wall paintings, bronze and terracotta vessels and sculptures, and opulent gold jewelry, as well as other treasures. This comprehensive exhibition catalogue reveals how Etruscan achievements influenced Western civilization, leaving a legacy that still captivates today. Featured in this book will be the Linen Book of Zagreb, a third-century BCE calendar of rituals and sacrifices that has never been shown in the United States; a variety of bronze sculptures, vessels, and mirrors revealing the Etruscan skill in working with this metal; lavish gold jewelry and a gold granulated bowl covered with more that 250,000 grains; terracotta and bronze models of houses discovered in tombs, as well as the pediment from the funeral shrine at Ponte Rotto in Vulci; precious gold and silver gilt vessels and other treasures from the Regolini-Galassi tomb on loan from the Vatican's Museo Gregoriano Etrusco; a decorated and painted ostrich egg from Vulci; and a hydria painted with the myth of Heracles attaching the Hydra by the Eagle Painter from the Getty Villa. As the first major
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