. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ut that is also true of theaboriginal Cretans—and of many other autochthonous earliest remains are of a type familiar to us in the earlieststrata of production all over the Mediterranean coast-lands—prehistoric polygonal masonry, a beehive tomb, incised buccheronero vases and so forth. Their later and finer work showsa distinct cousinship with that of Greece though sometimescuriously debased and uncouth in spirit. In bronze-workingthey were very skilful* They developed painting to a highpitch in early time
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. ut that is also true of theaboriginal Cretans—and of many other autochthonous earliest remains are of a type familiar to us in the earlieststrata of production all over the Mediterranean coast-lands—prehistoric polygonal masonry, a beehive tomb, incised buccheronero vases and so forth. Their later and finer work showsa distinct cousinship with that of Greece though sometimescuriously debased and uncouth in spirit. In bronze-workingthey were very skilful* They developed painting to a highpitch in early times, and the British Museum possesses someinteresting examples from Caere. It was indeed believed byPliny that Corinthian painters had settled in Etruria, thatbeing the usual account by which the ancients explainedresemblances. But we may believe that the art of paintingis indigenous on the soil of Tuscany. Their pottery is verysimilar to that of It appears that the flourishingperiod of Etruscan art coincided with that of the greatest20 ♦ Plates. t Plate
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