. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. kind isto be seen in the British Museum. That came fromBomarzo. In this Tomb there was formerly a thirdsarcophagus and of a higher and more The sides were ornamented with colouredfigures in relief. It has taken up a new positionin the Etruscan-Vatican Museum, where so many ofthe art treasures of Casre are exhibited. From aportion of an inscription upon a wall of this tomband also upon a slab, it is supposed that a familynamed Apucus were in possession. I presumeApucus to be the Latinised form of the Etruscanname. These walls were fresc
. Up hill and down dale in ancient Etruria. kind isto be seen in the British Museum. That came fromBomarzo. In this Tomb there was formerly a thirdsarcophagus and of a higher and more The sides were ornamented with colouredfigures in relief. It has taken up a new positionin the Etruscan-Vatican Museum, where so many ofthe art treasures of Casre are exhibited. From aportion of an inscription upon a wall of this tomband also upon a slab, it is supposed that a familynamed Apucus were in possession. I presumeApucus to be the Latinised form of the Etruscanname. These walls were frescoed once, but of colouror design nothing now remains. I think it is fairto credit the Etruscans—whatever may have beentheir limitations in other branches of art,—withhaving created that of sarcophagal recumbentfigures. It is an art unknown in Egypt or Etruria,—especially in Tarquinia, Chiusi, Tosca- 1 A detailed account of this work of art has been given by in his Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. 2, p. CLERE (CERVETERI) OR AGYLLA 219 nella, they abound,—both in marble and what a stride in the art the Etruscan artistshave made here ! They have altogether abolishedthe reign of the moon-faced dwarfs who dominatedVolterra from their urns, as we have seen. It is at the North-East end of the Banditacciathat you will enter the most interesting and the bestpreserved of all the Caere tombs. This is the Grotta dei Rilieve. In general plan—thoughsmaller,—it resembles the Tomb of the has the similarly raised benches of rock with thesame sepulchral recesses above. A ridged andraftered roof slightly slanting from the main beamis supported by two squared columns and all hewnout of the same tufa-rock. The architect proposedto himself, it seems, to present to us a symmetricaland well-proportioned saloon as a fitting sepulchrefor the family of Matunas. A man of war, the head of the family must havebeen. And then the artist d
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