Word: etruscans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unblinking eye. Margaux is a photographer's ideal, and despite the trend to diversity, hers is the face of a generation, as recognizable and memorable as Lisa Fonssagrives and Jean Shrimpton. When Margaux has her hair wet and slicked back, Photographer Francesco Scavullo thinks she looks Etruscan. Says Designer Halston: "She has all the components to become a modern young superstar-openness, infectiousness, beauty and the ambition to follow through...
...hand in designing the beautiful gardens at his summer palace, Sofiero. He had a lifelong interest in archaeology and made important finds in his own country and excavated in Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, Korea and Italy−where he arrived incognito each fall to search for artifacts in a buried Etruscan city...
...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. The tomb group of Euphronios might have helped write for the first time a few lines of entirely new history about Etruria, about Etruscan trade and economy of life...
Since most Etruscan tombs are underground, they are found by pushing a steel probe into the earth or sometimes by stamping and listening for reverberations. Then a hole is opened with a pick and shovel and the prizes dragged out. Just two weeks ago, in the area of Cerveteri from which the Met's vase is alleged to have come, the police found one group at work; the robbers fled, leaving their haul of 51 valuable Etruscan objects behind...
...unreliable. Most certificates are manipulated. The Italians can raise a ruckus, as in the case of the Metropolitan vase. But if they cannot prove anything, their claims are worthless. Unless the Italian authorities can come up with something like a photograph showing a work of art in an identifiable Etruscan tomb, they don't have a leg to stand...