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Wedgwood's business expanded so quickly that within ten years he had built a new factory (cost: more than £3,000), opened a London showroom, and started work on a whole village for his workers, to be named Etruria. As a prominent businessman, Wedgwood repeatedly urged Parliament to build new highways and canals to aid commerce. As a man who remembered his own lack of education he contributed toward two free schools for the poor...
...York Met Director Thomas Hoving proclaimed that with the acquisition of the Euphronios vase, "the histories of art will have to be rewritten." Dr. Giovanni Scichilone, 39, archaeological director of the Italian government's antiquities bureau for southern Etruria, rejects this aesthetic evaluation as too narrow. "Maybe a new generation of men will come," says Scichilone, "who are finally ready to appreciate the fact that the Euphronios vase by itself is nothing more than a war trophy, a lion skin. You can't get any historical meaning from archaeology until you deal with tomb groups, not single items...
ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN COLOR by Bodo Cichy. 424 pages. Viking. $25. About five pounds of information on ancient cultures in Mesopotamia and Yucatán, Crete and Etruria. Again, the color plates are beautifully done, while the architecture-megaliths, city gates, temples, pyramids, ziggurats-again convinces that art is long...
Conscience in Clay. The potter also became a pioneer of the industrial revolution. He built a model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...From the ancient confederation of Etruria, which dominated the Italian peninsula, was later swallowed up by Rome...