ABSTRACT
The influence of Greek art on Etruscan painting is undeniable.1 At the same time large-scale Etruscan painting has a distinct quality of its own, as Otto Brendel pointed out, “…there is a great deal both about their style and their themes which strikes us as properly Etruscan and, to that measure, not Greek.”2 The aim of this essay is to highlight landscape as one particularly Etruscan aspect of the frescoes by analyzing, in chronological order, a few examples of tomb paintings, mainly from Tarquinia.
