Abundance of life. Etruscan wall painting. Translated by Russell Stockman.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The History of the Etruscan Wall Painting: Style, Workshops, Chronology, Iconography, and 'Ideology'; The Beginnings: The Etrusco-Geometric (or Early Orientalizing) Period (End of the Eighth Century-650 B.C.); Asian and Corinthian Influences: The Orientalizing Period (650-575 B.C.); The First Major Flowering and the 'Iionic Koine': The Archaic Period (575-480 B.C.); Between Traditionalism and Innovation: The Sub-Archaic and Classical Periods (480-400 B.C.); The Great Changes: The Late Classical Period (400-330/20 B.C.); Final Flowering and Conclusion: The Early and High Hellenistic Period (330/320-End of the Third/Beginning of the Second Century B.C.); From Asia Minor to Magna Graecia, from Thrace to Alexandria: The 'Koine' and the Place of Etruscan Painting in the Art of the Ancient Mediterranean; Appendixes (Chronology; Register of Painted Etruscan Tombs; ; Plans of Tombs; Glossary; Bibliography; Ancient Literary Sources; Prosopographic Index of Family Names from Hellenistic Tarquinia; Index).