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Title: The cities and cemeteries of Etruria
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Dennis, George, 1814-1898
Subjects: Tombs
Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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slriiiiibound round hischeeks. See thewoodcut on p.332. On the oppo-site wall are apair of wrestlers,in even more dif-ficult attitudesthan in the othertombs—an ago-nothetes, in blue high - lows,standing by tosee fair play —two men onhorseback appa-rently racing, al-ready referred to—another black-bearded dwarf,with a paddle-like leaf on hisshoulder, who isbeing draggedforward by anathlete, bearinga similar leaf,apparently withthe wish to in-struct him ingymnastics, towhich the littleman naturally shows much reluctance. 5 These two figures have leathern pads fastenedto their knees and ankles.
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334 CHIITSL— The Cemetery. (chap. liv. Dwarfs and monkeys are associated in our minds ; and soapparent^ in those of the Etruscans. Here, amid the athletes,sits an ape chained to the stump of a tree, from which newhranches are sprouting. He has no apparent relation to thescene, and it may be that, like the dwarfs, he is introduced totill an awkward space under the projecting lintel of a door.6 All the figures on this wall are shown in the woodcut onpage 333. It is impossible not to be struck with the mediaeval characterof much of this scene. It requires no great exercise of theimagination to see a castle-yard in the days of chivalry. Thereis the warder with his horn, the minstrel with his lyre, theknight in armour, the nun with her rosary, the dwarfs andmonkey—and even some of the other figures would not be out ofplace. Yet the style of art, bearing a resemblance to that of theearliest tombs at Corneto, proves this to have been one of themost ancient of the painted tombs of Chiusi,

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