Moses, Henry [Editor]: A collection of antique vases, altars, paterae, tripods, candelabra, sarcophagi, &c.: from various museums and collections (Mailand, 1814)

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borders of the Adriatic; and that the Grecian colonies who
established themselves in these places cultivated the fine arts
tq a very high degree, and that they made a greater progress
in these new colonies than in Greece itself. If, then, any of
these vases were made by the Etruscans, they must at least
have acknowledged the Greeks as their masters. Objections
have been made to their being called Greeian vases, because
they are found also in other countries than Greece. M. Vis-
conti has suggested the name of Grasco-Italic or Italo-
Greek. Mons. Lanzi has proposed that the vases which
have been discovered at Nola, at Capua, at Naples, and at
Psestum, should be called Campanian; and those which
have been discovered in Sicily or at Athens, &c. Sicilian,
Athenian, &c. M. Millin. has proposed that they should be
denominated painted Campanian, or Sicilian, or Athenian
vases, according to the country in which they were found;
and this appears to be an appropriate and definite name, as
it not only declares the, name of the country in which they
were discovered, but further distinguishes them from vases
made of other materials than baked clay *.

Vases differ exceedingly in their forms, which are univer-
sally full of grace. They vary too from each other in the
number, in the position, and in the shape of the handles,
which are in general two, never exceed three, and are some-
times only one. The devices of the handles are often taken

* Millin, Peintures de Vases Antiques. Introd. § viii.