Etruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance

This book covers paintings found amongst Etruscan tombs, remnants of the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy, which covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, northern Lazio, the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western Campania. Many of the paintings depict human figures engaged in Etruscan customs and practices, such as the one found on Tomba degli Auguri, depicting two men wrestling each other in front of an audience.