Abundance of life : Etruscan wall painting / Stephan Steingräber ; translated by Russell Stockman

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 34 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-321) and index. Translated from the Italian. Contents; The history of the Etruscan wall painting: style, workshops, chronology, iconography, and ideology -- The beginnings: the Etrusco-Geometric (or early Orientalizing) period (end of the eighth century-650 B.C.) -- Asian and Corinthian influences: the Orientalizing period (650-575 B.C.) -- The first major flowering and the ""ionic koine"": the archaic period (575-480 B.C.) -- Between traditionalism and innovation: the sub-archaic and classical periods (480-400 B.C.) -- The great changes: the late classical period (400-330/20 B.C.) -- Final flowering and conclusion: the early and high Hellenistic period (330/320-end of the third/beginning of the second century B.C.) -- From Asia Minor to Magna Graecia, from Thrace to Alexandria: the ""koine"" and the place of Etruscan painting in the art of the ancient Mediterranean / Stephan Steingraber. Subjects; Mural painting and decoration, Etruscan. Tombs Decoration Italy Etruria. Mural painting and decoration, Etruscan. Tombs Decoration. Mural painting and decoration, Etruscan. Tombs Decoration Italy Etruria. Tombs Decoration Etruria. Mural painting and decoration, Etruscan. Tombs Decoration Italy Etruria. Tombs Decoration Etruria. Tombs Decorations Italy Etruria. Europe Etruria. Etruria Antiquities. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.