The Etruscan world.
Borely Museum| N° d'inventaire | 30511 |
| Format | 21 x 24 |
| Détails | 104 p., numerous black and white photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 1977. |
| Etat | Occasion |
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The Borely Museum in Marseille, with its exhibition "The Etruscan World," offers the pleasure of rediscovering the seduction of a smile that is, to be honest, still as mocking as ever.
Although archaeologists do not like to hear much talk of the "Etruscan mystery," the fact remains that they read very well but do not yet really understand the language of a people whose origins they are still debating. Raymond Bloch, who refers to the collective work published in 1976, "Research on the Religions of Ancient Italy" (Ed. Droz), to review recent active research carried out by the Italian Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies in Florence and its French section (ERA, 437 of the CNRS), notes that, despite the progress of knowledge, "while we can easily read texts written in an alphabet related to Greek, their meaning remains largely obscure to us." Progress "remains weak," and "there is still dispute over the most distant origins and the process of formation of the people themselves."
But what this seductive people, enamored of the pleasures of life, would have to say is probably not in texts and, in any case, is expressed without mystery thanks to the luxury of its particularly rich and numerous necropolises, as we know since the first excavations in Tuscany in the eighteenth century. The Marseille exhibition, which does not claim to show all Etruscan art, has very intelligently reconstructed some tombs.
The Borely Museum in Marseille, with its exhibition "The Etruscan World," offers the pleasure of rediscovering the seduction of a smile that is, to be honest, still as mocking as ever.
Although archaeologists do not like to hear much talk of the "Etruscan mystery," the fact remains that they read very well but do not yet really understand the language of a people whose origins they are still debating. Raymond Bloch, who refers to the collective work published in 1976, "Research on the Religions of Ancient Italy" (Ed. Droz), to review recent active research carried out by the Italian Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies in Florence and its French section (ERA, 437 of the CNRS), notes that, despite the progress of knowledge, "while we can easily read texts written in an alphabet related to Greek, their meaning remains largely obscure to us." Progress "remains weak," and "there is still dispute over the most distant origins and the process of formation of the people themselves."
But what this seductive people, enamored of the pleasures of life, would have to say is probably not in texts and, in any case, is expressed without mystery thanks to the luxury of its particularly rich and numerous necropolises, as we know since the first excavations in Tuscany in the eighteenth century. The Marseille exhibition, which does not claim to show all Etruscan art, has very intelligently reconstructed some tombs.