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Etruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Frederik Poulsen
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A systematic study of painted funerary chambers in central Italy, documenting wall-decoration, figural motifs, and pictorial techniques from tombs at Corneto and Chiusi and comparing originals with museum facsimiles and drawings. The text catalogs recurring scenes—banquets, funerary processions, mythic and domestic tableaux—and follows their stylistic development and symbolic roles within burial contexts. It also recounts excavation and copying efforts, notes conservation problems that affected preservation, and explains methods used in recording the paintings. Interpretive chapters relate the imagery to religious practice, social customs, and external artistic influences, and extensive plates illustrate the points made for students and scholars.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing page
1 Wall-painting from the Tomba Campana 7
2 Main picture in the Tomba dei Tori at Corneto 7
3 Back wall in the Tomba degli Auguri 11
4 Right main wall in the Tomba degli Auguri 12
5 Part of the left main wall in the Tomba degli Auguri. (After a coloured drawing in the Helbig Museum) 12
6 Painting from the Tomba del Pulcinella 12
7 Left main wall of the Tomba delle Iscrizioni 15
8 Back wall of the Tomba delle Iscrizioni 15
9 Picture from the Tomba del Morto at Corneto 16
10 Picture from the Tomba del Triclinio 16
11 ‘La bella ballerina’ in the Tomba Francesca Giustiniani Frontispiece
12 Right main wall in the Tomba delle Iscrizioni 19
13 Back wall in the Tomba delle Leonesse at Corneto 20
14 Left main wall in the Tomba del Barone 20
15 Right main wall in the Tomba delle Bighe 22
16 Etruscan terracotta head in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 22
17 Part of the small frieze in the Tomba delle Bighe. (After Arch. Jahrb. 1916) 22
18 Wall-painting from the Tomba del Morente: the lassoing of the horse 24
19 Part of the small frieze in the Tomba delle Bighe. (After Arch. Jahrb. 1916) 24
20 Part of the Tomba della Scimmia at Chiusi 24
21 Part of the small frieze in the Tomba delle Bighe. (After Arch. Jahrb. 1916) 27
22 Part of the small frieze in the Tomba delle Bighe. (After Arch. Jahrb. 1916) 27
23 Symposium in the Tomba delle Bighe 27
24 Back wall in the Tomba dei Leopardi (After Arch. Jahrb. 1916. Pl. 9) 31
25 Married couple on an Etruscan cinerary urn 31
26 Picture from the Tomba degli Scudi at Corneto 35
27 Picture from the Tomba degli Scudi at Corneto. (After a coloured drawing in the Helbig Museum) 35
28 Arnth Velchas and wife on couch. Picture in the Tomba dell’ Orco (After a coloured drawing in the Helbig Museum) 36
29 Head of Arnth Velchas’ wife. From the Tomba dell’ Orco 37
30 Back wall in the Tomba del Vecchio 37
31 Symposium in the Tomba Golini at Orvieto 38
32 Wall-painting in the Tomba Golini 38
33 Kitchen interior in the Tomba Golini 40
34 Painting in the Tomba del Letto funebre, at Corneto 40
35 Demon in the Tomba dell’ Orco 49
36 Picture in the Tomba dell’ Orco at Corneto 50
37 Hades, Persephone and Geryon in the Tomba dell’ Orco 50
38 Drawing from Michelangelo’s sketch-book 51
39 Wall-painting from the Tomba François at Vulci 54
40 Painting in the Tomba Golini at Orvieto 54
41 Painting from the Tomba della Pulcella 54
42 Relief on a tomb altar from Chiusi. In the Barracco Collection in Rome 56
43 Cinerary urn from Chiusi 56
44 Roman sarcophagus in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 58
45 Procession of the dead in the Tomba del Tifone 58
46 Painted frieze in the Tomba del Cardinale 58
47 Part of the frieze in the Tomba del Cardinale 58