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The Tomb of the Leopards (Italian ''Tomba dei Leopardi'') is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene. The tomb is located within the Necropolis of Monterozzi and dates to around 480–450 BC.〔Fred S. Kleiner, ''A History of Roman Art'' (Wadsworth, 2010), p. xxxv; Otto J. Brendel, ''Etruscan Art'' (Yale University Press, 1995), p. 269; Luisa Banti, ''Etruscan Cities and Their Culture'' (University of California Press, 1973), p. 79.〕 The painting is one of the best-preserved murals of Tarquinia,〔Kleiner, ''A History of Roman Art'', p. xxxv.〕 and is known for "its lively coloring, and its animated depictions rich with gestures."〔Stephan Steingräber, ''Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting'' (Getty Publications, 2006), p. 133.〕 The banqueters are "elegantly dressed" male-female couples attended by two nude boys carrying serving implements. The women are depicted as fair-skinned and the men as dark, in keeping with the gender conventions established in the Near East, Egypt and Archaic Greece. The arrangement of the three couples prefigures the triclinium of Roman dining.〔 Musicians are pictured on the walls to the left and right of the banquet.〔 On the right, a ''komos'' of wreathed figures and musicians approaches the banquet; on the left, six musicians and giftbearers appear in a more stately procession.〔Steingräber, ''Abundance of Life'', p. 133. The narrative of the three walls reads from right to left, as does the written Etruscan language.〕 The man on the far-right couch holds up an egg, symbol of regeneration,〔 and other banqueters hold wreaths.〔Steingräber, ''Abundance of Life'', p. 133.〕 The scene is usually taken to represent the deceased's funerary banquet, or a family meal that would be held on the anniversary of his death. It is presented as a celebration of life,〔 while Etruscan banquet scenes in earlier tombs have a more somber character.〔Brendel, ''Etruscan Art'', p. 269.〕 The scene appears to take place outdoors, within slender trees and vegetation, perhaps under a canopy.〔Kleiner, ''A History of Roman Art'', p. xxxv; Brendel, ''Etruscan Art'', p. 269.〕 Although the figures are distinctly Etruscan,〔 the artist of the central banquet draws on trends in Greek art and marks a transition from Archaic to Early Classical style in Etruscan art.〔Brendel, ''Etruscan Art'', p. 270.〕 The processions on the left and right are more markedly Archaic and were executed by different artists.〔Steingräber, ''Abundance of Life'', p. 134.〕 The tomb was discovered in 1875. In the 1920s, D.H. Lawrence described the painting in his travel essays ''Sketches of Etruscan Places'':
Artistically, the painting is regarded as less sophisticated and graceful than that found in the Tomb of the Bigas or the Tomb of the Triclinium.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tomb of the Leopards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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