ABSTRACT

In this study the most important topics relating to Etruscan painted pottery have been selected and necessarily synthesized.1 An attempt was made to focus not only on the artistic aspects of the pottery, but also on the technical aspects and on the organization of pottery workshops. This choice was made because in Antiquity the organization of work, different from today, stimulated many cultural exchanges, the fruits of which are evident for us even in the objects that have survived. As is known, while we have a large amount of iconographic and archaeological evidence for the organization of pottery workshops in Greece, for the Etruscans we are less fortunate. However, it is the oldest period that, almost surprisingly, gives us a greater number of documents.