Long poles with spikes ( spillones) piercing the earth rhythmically like the V8 engine in a 33 Stradale. A man stops here to comb his hair, another, perhaps, takes off his sunglasses for a second to massage the bridge of his nose. Sports jackets, the day to day uniform of Italians from that time, lying nonchalantly on rocky walls. Their muscles bulging beneath their sweat stained Salvatore Piccolo shirts. The healthy glean of their sun kissed skin, kept young with a healthy Italian diet, visible from the light of their torches. We can imagine them- handsome and nattily dressed. Omertà, the ancient code of honour has prevailed to this day. 45, 46, London: Head of Zeus, Ltd.On a dark and stormy night, in Etruria in late December 1971, a ragged band of diggers called the tombaroli unearthed a masterpiece of Greek art: the Sarpedon Krater. The Sarpedon Krater: the Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 156–57, 438, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 289–91, Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 78, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 96c, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Les représentations dans la céramique attique du IVe siècle. Greek Painting: The Development of Pictoral Representation from Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times. 200, 200, Princeton: Princeton University Press. The History of the Greek and Roman Theater. A Guide to the Collections, Part 1: Ancient and Oriental Art, 2nd edn. "Recent Accessions of Greek Vases." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11(12): pp.
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