A term used to refer to the eighteenth-century fascination with the Etruscan style (defined in its broadest sense). In England, this was best represented by the architects Robert Adam and John Nash and the potter Josiah Wedgwood. In many cases this referred as much to the Etruscan provenance of Greek vases as to a precise influence of Etruscan art.
Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans. Simon K. F. Stoddart.