. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. ay of theunderworld behind him a devil of the same type is seated,and then comes a crowd of young people driven along bytwo devils, one of whom threatens them with his woman, who looks back moaning, is being brutally draggedalong by two male demons, and at the end of the processiontwo winged devils are seen hastening forward, slender oflimb and agile of movement, like poisonous insects. In afragment of a frieze, which is now badly damaged, the Charundevil was once more seen in the act of crushing a skull withhis hammer.* This
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. ay of theunderworld behind him a devil of the same type is seated,and then comes a crowd of young people driven along bytwo devils, one of whom threatens them with his woman, who looks back moaning, is being brutally draggedalong by two male demons, and at the end of the processiontwo winged devils are seen hastening forward, slender oflimb and agile of movement, like poisonous insects. In afragment of a frieze, which is now badly damaged, the Charundevil was once more seen in the act of crushing a skull withhis hammer.* This picture has a quality which reminds one of the ^ Caylus, Recueil dantiquitds iv. Ducati, Monumenti dei Lined xx. (Paris, 1761), 112 f. pp. 607-12. Beazley, Lewes House ^ Tiraboschi, Storia delta lett. Collection of Ancient Gems, p. 33, Venezia, 1795, i. 13 fF. footnote. no. 36 (pi. 3). Similar motives on tombstones ^ Badly illustrated in Inghirami, and Etruscan gems. Cp. Grenier, Monumenti etruschi iv. pi. ,^.^]..
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