From Here to Eternity

Lisa C. Pieraccini

University of California Berkeley

From Here to Eternity... Etruscan Wall Painting

Chronology

Orientalizing Period 650 -575 BC

Archaic Period 575 - 480 BC

Classical Period 480 – 330 BC

Hellenistic Period 330 – 2nd BC

Tomb of the Painted Lions, right dromos, right wall, c. 625 BC.

Tomb of the Panthers, Tarquinia, upper part of the back wall withtwo heraldic panthers, c. 600 BC

Watercolor of the wall-paintings on the wall of the Campana Tomb, c. 600 BC.Tapestry like design of a fantastic world of man, beasts and vegetation motifs…pictoral variety

Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, c. 530 BC. Achilles ambushing Troilos in a sacred grove of Apollo (?).

Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, c. 530 BC.Achilles ambushing Troilus in a sacred groveof Apollo (?).

The female dancer wears a lightchiton, mantle, and tutulus.

Tomb of the Lionesses,Tarquinia, c. 520 BC

Tomb of the Hunting and Fishing, Tarquinia, back chamber, banquet of aristocratic couple, 510. BC.

Life size terracotta sarcophagus,the so-called “married couple,”Cerveteri, c. 500 BC

Tomb of the Augurs,Tarquinia, c. 520 BC

apas tanasar tanasar

Phersu, left wall.

Tomb of the Baron, Tarquinia, c. 510 BC.

Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, banquet scene, c. 480 BC.

“If I must lie in a grave, let it be an Etruscan one.” Sigmund Freud

What do the trees suggest?

Tomb of The Triclinium, Tarquinia, c. 470 BC

Tomb of the BlueDemons, Tarquiniac. 400 BC discovered in 1985.

Tomb of the Blue Demons; section of the back wall: banqueting scene with lounging couple and aulos player; c. 400 BC

Tomb of the Blue Demons, two demons on a rocky landscape, c. 400 BC.

Tomb of Orcus I, Tarquinia,mid 4th BC., detail of the deathdemon or simple escort,Charun.

Technical and stylistic innovations appear…three-dimensionality

Tomb of the Orcus II, Tarquinia. 4th BCTuchulcha and Theseus in the Underworld

Included in this tomb are scenes from the Odyssey withAchilles in the Underworld.

Tomb of Orcus II , left wall with Agamemnon and The Soul ofTeiresias.

Tomb of the Infernal Quadriga, 4th BC, Sarteano (discovered 2003)

Two men recline at banquet…perhaps the deceased?

Three headed snakemonster and hippocamp

Charun and Vanth in the Francois Tomb, Vulci (sacrifice of the Trojan prisoners).Agamemnon, ghost of Patroklos, Vanth…Achilles sacrifices a Trojan in honor of his comrade Patroklos, Charun stands with hammer in hand, mid to late 4th BC.

Portrait of Vel Satie,Francois Tomb, Vulci.He wears the mantle or toga picta (embroidered).4th BC.

“The first full-length standing (painted ) portrait of European Art.”

M. Pallottino.

Charun Anina Tomb, end of 3rd BC Vanth

Larth Velcha and Velia Seitithi, Tombof the Shields, Tarquinia, c. 350 BC.

Tomb of the Orcus I

profile head of

Velia, c. 350 BC.

Velthur Velcha and Ravnthu Aprthnai attended by musicians, Tomb of the Shields, Tarquinia, c. 350 BC.

Tomb of the Meeting, Tarquinia, procession of togati, first half of 3rd BC. The deceased has white hair (three lictors stand in front of him).

From Here to Eternity…