. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. o H Q 2s. i6 TOMBADELTRICLINIO 17 totek contains several earlier, inferior facsimiles, made fromthe copies in the Museo Gregoriano and only touched up atCorneto by the painter Mariani; ^ and some more recent onescarefully executed on the spot (fig. 10). On each wall threefemale and two male dancers are seen among trees ; fillets andsinging-birds appear in the foliage. The male dancers playon lyre and flute ; the dancing-girls have castanets and theforemost a strap or chaplet with bells over her chaplets with bells are
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. o H Q 2s. i6 TOMBADELTRICLINIO 17 totek contains several earlier, inferior facsimiles, made fromthe copies in the Museo Gregoriano and only touched up atCorneto by the painter Mariani; ^ and some more recent onescarefully executed on the spot (fig. 10). On each wall threefemale and two male dancers are seen among trees ; fillets andsinging-birds appear in the foliage. The male dancers playon lyre and flute ; the dancing-girls have castanets and theforemost a strap or chaplet with bells over her chaplets with bells are often seen hanging on thewalls in pictures representing the symposia in honour of thedead (see below), and bear witness to the childish predilec-tion of the Etruscans for gipsy-like noise and most beautiful dancing-girl, however, in any Etruscantomb is the already mentioned bella ballerina di Corneto ,discovered on a wall in the Tomba Francesca give this figure, which has never been reproduced, afterthe facsimile in the Ny Carlsberg
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