Etruscan Orientalization / by Jessica Nowlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowlin, Jessica, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Brill research perspectives. Ancient history

Ancient history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

Physical Description:

104 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

Etruscan Orientalization' provides a historiography of the terms 'orientalizing' and 'orientalization' in eighteenth through twentieth century European scholarship on early Etruscan history as it sought to understand how civilizational knowledge transferred in antiquity from East to West. This original orientalist framing of cultural influence was influenced by notions of Italian nationalism and colonialism, all traits that can still be felt in modern understandings of 'orientalizing' as an art historical style, chronological period, and process of cultural change. This work argues that scholarship on Mediterranean connectivity in early first millennium BCE can provide new insights by abandoning the term 'orientalizing'.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Etruscan Orientalization

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 The Beginnings of Art Historical Periodization

3 Etruscan Origins and Nationalism

3.1 Ancient Debates on Etruscan Origins

3.2 Interpretations of Etruscan Origins in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

4 Orientalizing: The Birth of a Stylistic Term

4.1 Origins in Greek Art History

4.2 Italian Orientalizing: Between arte/periodo orientalizzante and the Eastern Origin of the Etruscans

5 Orientalizing to Orientalization: From Period to Process

6 Recent Interpretations of Orientalizing and Orientalization

6.1 Aristocratic Banquet

6.2 Monarchy

6.3 Luxury

6.4 The Colonialist Transfer of a 'Princely' Way of Life

6.5 Postcolonial Interpretations

7 Conclusions: Abandoning the Term

Acknowledgments

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Nowlin, Jessica Etruscan Orientalization

ISBN:

9789004473256

9004473254

OCLC:

1259584803