. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. ait. VI Contemporary with the group of the Tomba degli Auguriand the Tomba delle Iscrizioni is the Tomba del Barone,discovered at Corneto in 1827 ^^^ named, as already men-tioned, after Baron Kestner. After the paintings of this tombStackelberg executed a fine water-colour, and Thiirmer anumber of drawings, now in the University of style—both in the shape of the heads and in the treatmentof the draperies—is still Ionic, but the proportions are moreslender, probably owing to Chian or Attic influence. Composition and techn
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. ait. VI Contemporary with the group of the Tomba degli Auguriand the Tomba delle Iscrizioni is the Tomba del Barone,discovered at Corneto in 1827 ^^^ named, as already men-tioned, after Baron Kestner. After the paintings of this tombStackelberg executed a fine water-colour, and Thiirmer anumber of drawings, now in the University of style—both in the shape of the heads and in the treatmentof the draperies—is still Ionic, but the proportions are moreslender, probably owing to Chian or Attic influence. Composition and technique are both unique in thepaintings of this tomb. We content ourselves with repro-ducing one main wall, the left (fig. 14), where a black horsewith light grey hoofs, mane, and tail, is led by a man wearingred boots and a brown mantle lined with green. He is ^ Cp. Tacitus, //iy/or. iv. 53, on the dicabatur evinctum vittis coronisque;inauguration of the rebuilt Capito- ingressi milites, quis fausta nomina,lium : spatium omne quod templo fdicibus Fig. 13. BACK WALL IN THE TOMBA DELLE LEONESSEAfter a drawing in the Helbig JNIuseum
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