Identifier: citiescemeterie02denn (find matches)
Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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laim, A woman is an excellentrider, and has a good seat, and would not fall off when her horse gallops.Look at the Amazons, whom Mikon painted mounted on horses fighting withthe men ! Mikon, be it remembered, was renowned for the skill with whichhe depicted horses (Pans. I. IS, 1). It is by no means improbable that inthe scenes on this sarcophagus we see copies, entire or in part, of those■celebrated Athenian paintings. One feature in these scenes is worthy ofnotice. The heroines are not represented combating from chariots in thereliefs either from Phigaleia or Halicarnassus ; nor, so far as we know, in<any other production of Hellenic sculpture or painting which portrayed thiscelebrated myth, unless it be on figured vases. In this respect thesarcophagus in this Museum is unique. Of vases, the only instance I canrecollect in which quarlri/jce are introduced into the combat of Greeks withAmazons, is that of the grand krater from Ruvo in the Museum of Xaples.Mon. Inst. II. tav. 30.
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THE WALLS OF F.ESUL.E. CHAPTER XLI. FIESOLE.—FsESULsE. Chi Fiesol liedifico conobbe el locoCome gia per gli cieli ben cornposto. -Faccio degli Uberti. Vires autem veteres earum urbium liodieque magnitudo ostentat moenium. Yell. Paterculus. The first acquaintance the traveller in Italy makes withEtruscan antiquities—the first time, it may be, that he is re-minded of such a race—is generally at Fiesole. The closevicinity to Florence, and the report that some remains are to heseen there, far older than Roman days, attract the visitor to thespot. He there beholds walls of great massiveness, and a fewother remains, but forms a very imperfect conception of the racethat constructed them. He learns, it is true, from the skilldisplayed in these monuments, that the Etruscans could not havebeen a barbarous people; but the extent and character of theircivilization are to him still a mystery. It is not at Fiesole thatthis early people is to be comprehended. Who, that has visited Florence, do

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