Excerpt from Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art

Greek as if it had been found on the Athenian Akropolis, and that the Etruscan vases found on Etruscan and Italian soil are mainly Attic is now a matter of ancient history. May not the same be the case to a certain extent with the numerous bronzes which are labelled Etruscan because of their provenance? If it be urged that the finds on the soil of Greece proper have not - as was in variably the case with the vases - always yielded bronzes similar in subject and character to those from Etruria, it may again be asked whether certain classes of objects were not made in Athens for export only, to meet the taste and demand of foreign clients? In the majority of cases it, is futile to pronounce definitely on artistic as opposed to local provenance, so long as many classical sites, in Asia Minor in particular, remain unexcavated and unex plored. The artistic predominance of Attica and Athens becomes clearer daily. We have seen within the last ten or fifteen years the Northern Greek School of Brunn and the famous Aeginetan School disappear with the recognition that Athens had produced the same artistic phenomena and was the parent of them all. In the same way it will doubtless come to pass that many objects, though found in Etruria and put to Etruscan usage, prove to be Greek, and perhaps Attic in their origin. Meanwhile, it has seemed wise and even scientific to admit side by Side with works of art (in this case mainly bronzes and a few terra-cottas, since vases are happily no longer in question) found in Greece or in the avowedly Greek colonies of Asia Minor, Egypt, and Magna Graecia, a number of the so - called Etruscan bronzes, provided always that these bore unmistakable traces of direct or indirect Greek influence.

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