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Fragmented Images: The Last Tomb Paintings of T arquinia
Author(s) -
Roth Roman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/ojoa.12009
Subject(s) - conquest , painting , ideology , ancient history , politics , art , period (music) , archaeology , history , archaic period , fragmentation (computing) , art history , aesthetics , law , political science , operating system , computer science
Summary Cultural decline as a result of the R oman conquest is usually invoked to explain the gradual disappearance of T arquinian tomb paintings during the third century BC . By contrast, this paper argues that, first, the late tomb paintings of T arquinia markedly differed from their predecessors by decorating individual burials (fragmentation), as opposed to entire chamber tombs, which should be seen as a culturally meaningful development in the iconographic approach towards representing the deceased; and that, second, the disappearance of this time‐honoured type of monument be seen as part of wider changes in the ways in which T arquinian and other E truscan elites chose to materialize their ideologies during the cultural and political realignments of the period of the R oman conquest.