Tomb of the Leopards - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tomb of the Leopards - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Tomb of the Leopards (Italian: Tomba dei leopardi) is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene. The tomb is located within the Necropolis of Monterozzi, near Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy, and dates to around 470–450 BC.Fred S. Kleiner, A History of Roman Art (Wadsworth, 2010), p. xxxv; Otto J. Brendel, Etruscan Art (Yale University Press, 1995), p. 269; Luisa Banti, Etruscan Cities and Their Culture (University of California Press, 1973), p. 79. The painting is one of the best-preserved murals of Tarquinia,Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, p. xxxv. and is known for "its lively coloring, and its animated depictions rich with gestures,"Stephan Steingräber, Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting (Getty Publications, 2006), p. 133. and is influenced by the Greek-Attic art of the first quarter of the fifth century BC. Alessandro Naso, La pittura etrusca, Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2005, pp. 37-38. (Italian) Read more on Wikipedia
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