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Etruscan Pottery X: The Wolf-man or the Shape of Fate. | Flickr Greek Black Figure Art, Ancient Italy, Etruscan Art, Ancient Greek Pottery, Greek Pottery, Black Figure, Greek Tattoos, Ancient Mythology, Ancient Sculpture

At center, infernal daemon represented as a Wolf-man. According to some scholars, this figure represents the soul of a man bound to the world of the dead. The Etruscan demonizing conception transforms this figure in a man-wolf, a daemon-wolf. Therefore the "monster" could be identified as a restless soul: primarily the spirit of people who had not received a ritual burial, or who had died violently or prematurely. See the cinerary urn - Volterra, Museo Guarnacci - depicting an enchained…

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Bucchero ware | Etruscan pottery | Britannica Etruscan Pottery, Historical Ceramics, Clay Date, Handmade Clay Pots, Vase Ideas, Earthenware Pottery, Ancient Pottery, Carbon Monoxide, Black Pigment

bucchero ware, Etruscan earthenware pottery common in pre-Roman Italy chiefly between about the 7th and early 5th century bc. Characteristically, the ware is black, sometimes gray, and often shiny from polishing. The colour was achieved by firing in an atmosphere charged with carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. This is known as a reducing firing, and it converts the red of the clay, due to the presence of iron oxide, to the typical bucchero colours. Although opinions vary about the precise…

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Etruscan ceramic oinochoe with a serpent around the body, ca. 675 B.C. In their heyday, the Etruscan elite grew very rich through trade with the Celtic world to the north and the Greeks to the south and filled their large family tombs with imported luxuries. Archaic Greece had a huge influence on their art and architecture, and Greek mythology was evidently very familiar to them. Etruscan Pottery, Archaic Greece, Etruscan Art, Ancient Greek Pottery, Greek Pottery, The Greeks, 1st Century, Antique Vase, Celtic Art

Etruscan ceramic oinochoe with a serpent around the body, ca. 675 B.C. In their heyday, the Etruscan elite grew very rich through trade with the Celtic world to the north and the Greeks to the south and filled their large family tombs with imported luxuries. Archaic Greece had a huge influence on their art and architecture, and Greek mythology was evidently very familiar to them.

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