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introduction.] WOEKS IN CLAY AND BRONZE. lxix
of them.3 The Veientes in particular were famed for their works
in clay.10
Then followed the arts of casting and chiselling in bronze, for
which the Etruscans were greatly renowned;1 and their statues
in metal not only filled the temples of Eome/ but were also
exported to other lands.3 In truth the Etruscans have the
renown of being the inventors of this art in Italy.4 Innu-
merable are the specimens of Etruscan toreutic statuary that
have come down to us, and widely different are the degrees of
excellence displayed, from the rudest, most uncouth attempts
at the human form, to the ideal glorification of its beauties,
wrought with all
" The dinning they who dwell on high
Hare given unto the Greek."—
In size they varied no less : from the minute figures of deities,
or lares,5 to statues of colossal dimensions, like that of the
Apollo on the Palatine, which was fifty feet in height, and
was as wonderful for its beauty as for its mass of metal.6 One
9 The most celebrated were the They had also abundance of iron in the
quadriga on the fastigiwm of the temple mines of Elba.
of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the statue of 2 Tuscanica omnia in sedibus. Varro,
Summanus on the same temple. The ap. Plin. XXXV. 45. Tertullian (Apo-
fictile statue of Jupiter was also by an loget. 25) says they inundated the City.
Etruscan artist. Plin. XXVIII. 4 ; s pi;n. XXXIV. 16. One city alone,
XXXV. 45 ; Vitrur. III. 3 ; Cicero, de Volsinii, is said to have contained 2000
Divin. I. 10 ; Serv. ad Ma. VII. 188 ; statues, which Miiller (Etrusk. IV. 3,3)
Plutarch, Public.; Festus, v. Ratumena ; takes to have been of metal:
cf. Propert. IV. 1. 5. 4 Cassiodor. Var. VII. 15.—Statuas
10 See Vol. I. p. 57. primum Thusci in Italia invenisse refe-
1 Athenaais (XV. c. 18, p. 700), runtur. Miiller (IV. 3, 3) refers this
speaking of the skill of the Etruscans in to casting in metal,
making lamps, calls them (piXtrrexvoi. 5 These are the " Tyrrhena sigilla "
They obtained this metal from their own of Horace, Ep. II. 2, 180; though
mines, probably from those of Montieri Micali (Ant. Pop. Ital. II. p. 243) thinks
—Mom JEris—near Massa; and worked the term refers to gems and scarabasi.
in it earlier than in iron, which, as Lu- The « Tuscanica signa " of Pliny
cretius (V. 1286) tells us, is a later (XXXIV. 16), which were exported to
discovery. many lands, were probably statues of
Et prior serfs erat, qiiara ferri, cognitus ar8e* slze'
11m. XXXIV. 18.
usus.
of them.3 The Veientes in particular were famed for their works
in clay.10
Then followed the arts of casting and chiselling in bronze, for
which the Etruscans were greatly renowned;1 and their statues
in metal not only filled the temples of Eome/ but were also
exported to other lands.3 In truth the Etruscans have the
renown of being the inventors of this art in Italy.4 Innu-
merable are the specimens of Etruscan toreutic statuary that
have come down to us, and widely different are the degrees of
excellence displayed, from the rudest, most uncouth attempts
at the human form, to the ideal glorification of its beauties,
wrought with all
" The dinning they who dwell on high
Hare given unto the Greek."—
In size they varied no less : from the minute figures of deities,
or lares,5 to statues of colossal dimensions, like that of the
Apollo on the Palatine, which was fifty feet in height, and
was as wonderful for its beauty as for its mass of metal.6 One
9 The most celebrated were the They had also abundance of iron in the
quadriga on the fastigiwm of the temple mines of Elba.
of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the statue of 2 Tuscanica omnia in sedibus. Varro,
Summanus on the same temple. The ap. Plin. XXXV. 45. Tertullian (Apo-
fictile statue of Jupiter was also by an loget. 25) says they inundated the City.
Etruscan artist. Plin. XXVIII. 4 ; s pi;n. XXXIV. 16. One city alone,
XXXV. 45 ; Vitrur. III. 3 ; Cicero, de Volsinii, is said to have contained 2000
Divin. I. 10 ; Serv. ad Ma. VII. 188 ; statues, which Miiller (Etrusk. IV. 3,3)
Plutarch, Public.; Festus, v. Ratumena ; takes to have been of metal:
cf. Propert. IV. 1. 5. 4 Cassiodor. Var. VII. 15.—Statuas
10 See Vol. I. p. 57. primum Thusci in Italia invenisse refe-
1 Athenaais (XV. c. 18, p. 700), runtur. Miiller (IV. 3, 3) refers this
speaking of the skill of the Etruscans in to casting in metal,
making lamps, calls them (piXtrrexvoi. 5 These are the " Tyrrhena sigilla "
They obtained this metal from their own of Horace, Ep. II. 2, 180; though
mines, probably from those of Montieri Micali (Ant. Pop. Ital. II. p. 243) thinks
—Mom JEris—near Massa; and worked the term refers to gems and scarabasi.
in it earlier than in iron, which, as Lu- The « Tuscanica signa " of Pliny
cretius (V. 1286) tells us, is a later (XXXIV. 16), which were exported to
discovery. many lands, were probably statues of
Et prior serfs erat, qiiara ferri, cognitus ar8e* slze'
11m. XXXIV. 18.
usus.