Main entry:

Brendel, Otto, 1901-1973.

Title & Author:

Etruscan art / Otto J. Brendel.

Publication:

Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1978.

Description:

507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-485) and index.
Part One: The Villanovan and Orientalizing periods. Introduction; The Villanovan style and geometric art; The Etruscan tombs; Orientalizing art in Etruria; Figurative and non-figurative art; Popular art; The rise of statuary; The rise of portraiture -- Part Two: The early and middle Archaic periods. Transitional reliefs and wall paintings; Early archaic art; Literary aspects of archaic art; Middle archaic painting and metal reliefs ;The schools of Tarquinia and Caere; Middle archaic sculpture in the round and minor arts -- Part Three: The late Archaic period. Painting and metalwork; Northern Etruria; Sculpture in bronze and stone; Sculpture in Terracotta; Ager Faliscus, Latium and Rome -- Part Four: The Classical era: the fifth century. Introduction: The attending circumstances; Wall paintings and stone reliefs; Proto-classical art; The classical style in Etruria -- Part Five: The classical era: the fourth century. Sculpture; Painting; Metal engraving and carved reliefs; Stone sarcophagi: reliefs -- Stone sarcophagi: portraiture -- Part Six: The Hellensitic period: last manifestiations and legacy. Profile of the period: the Etruscan condition -- Etruscan Hellenistic.
ISBN 0-14-056143-9 Pbk : £7.95.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0140561439 (pbk.)
9780140561432
0140560432 (U.K.)
9780140560435 (U.K.)
0670298808 (U.S.)
9780670298808 (U.S.)

Subject:

Art, Etruscan.
Art étrusque.
Etrusker
Kunst
Etruskische kunst.
Etruscans.
Italy Antiquities.
Etruscan visual arts, ca B.C.600-ca B.C.100 Critical studies

Added entries:

Pelican history of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 21877
Call No.: PO1755 N5750 REF; ID:87-B886
Status: Available