Word: etruria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...