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Antiquities Circle Lecture - The Etruscans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2021
- A Virtual Antiquities Circle Lecture presented by Dr. Branko van Oppen, on February 21, 2021. In this talk, Dr. van Oppen looks at the Etruscans.
The Etruscans are a fascinating ancient people about whom much remains a mystery. They inhabited an area of Northern Italy (present-day Tuscany and beyond). It is only through their often-violent contact with the Romans that we know something about their history. They have left no historical accounts of their own, or at least none have survived. Etruscan culture is best known from tombs and temples. Much of the preserved Etruscan material culture is therefore of funerary or religious nature.
The permanent collection at the Tampa Museum of Art includes an assortment of 50 Etruscan objects covering a period of about 500 years (ca. 750-250 BCE). Together, these fifty objects illustrate aspects of four main themes: myth and religion; jewelry; pottery; everyday human and animal life as well as death.
For more information visit: tampamuseum.org/
Dr van Oppen is fantastic - the TMA is lucky to have such an energetic and engaging curator. I do hope to see either of these exhibitions, at the TMA or even at the MFA Boston (which would warm my heart as I used to work there.) Thank you for sharing.
All these are funerary items, they depict the symbolism of the renaissance.
Most often there is an image of a soul in the form of a bird, maybe a person with bird wings, so it was shown that the soul entered a new body.
Another frequently used symbol is a lion, it shows the beginning of rebirth in the constellation Leo, a lion with bird wings shows the soul in the constellation Leo.
Can we get past this," not much is known about the Etruscans." There are ample archeological sites, well excavated and museum archives full of Etruscan artifacts in Italy. The problem is we don't have enough people studying them. Even the Italian government knows where TONS of unexcavated tombs are and they do NOT excavate because they don't have enough money to fund the excavations, nor money for the maintenance and storage of the artifacts. We need MORE foreign universities to take up these excavations and research projects! Not only those of ancient Romans and Greeks.