Dimensions
222 x 264 x 17mm
The Etruscans have been appealing to the imagination of a wide audience and architects for centuries. Their culture's wealth, religion and nature are fascinating and amazing and have dominated Italy for almost a thousand years. Women held a special position and there is no other culture in ancient times in which women were deemed to be on an equal footing with men as with the Etruscans. The shroud of mysticism which surrounded the Etruscans has now gone. Nowadays, a wealth of information is available that can be used to reconstruct Etruscan society. We can read the language, we can understand the prophetic religion and we can discover the landscape which was their home. AUTHOR: Patricia Lulof PhD (Haarlem, 1955) holds a Master's Degree in Archaeology and History of Art and Antiquities as well as a PhD from at the University of Amsterdam (UVA). Since 2008 she has served as Associate Professor in Pre-roman Archaeology at the Amsterdam Archeological Center of the University of Amsterdam. She is a well-known specialist on Archaic Age temples and religion, terracotta roof decorations and statuary in Central Italy, cultural heritage and digital culture of Antiquities in Italy. Iefke van Kampen PhD (Leiden, 1968) holds a Master's Degree in Etruscologia and Italian Antiquities from the University of Rome La Sapienza, where she also took a Specialization Degree and a PhD. She currently works as Director of the Museo dell'Agro Veientano in Formello (Rome). She is an expert on studies about Archaic Age habitation contexts in Rome, Etruscan sculpture, terracottas and ceramics as well as Veii and the Curiosity Cabinet in the Palazzo Chigi of Formello. ILLUSTRATIONS: 170 colour 20 b/w
