The Art of the Etruscans

The Etruscans

Italy

Untranslated language

Influenced by Greek culture

Etruria 

Between Arno and the Tiber rivers

Typical Etruscan Temple of the 6th Century

(as described by Vitruvius)

One or more cella's pushed back on the platform, 

columns in the front, raised up on a platform,

sculpture on the roofline

Portonaccio Temple

Veii, Italy

Etruscan

End of Archaic period-Archaic smile

buggy eyes, archaic smile, similar hair, Hermes, terra-cotta 

Apulu(Aplollo)

Roof of the PortonaccioTemple

hair reacts to the shoulder, movement in the statue, 

clothed-as opposed to nude as gods usually are

Porta Augusta, Perugia

decorating the arch with greek architecture-very influential later

key stone, stronger than post and lintel, 

distributes the weight better-like a relieving triangle

groin vault-extrememly strong

Porta Marzia (Gate of Mars)

Perugia

Second century BC

Cerveteri, necropolis

hollow out rock, leave doorway, has roads almost like a city

Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs

Cerveteri, Italy

3rd century BC

bed in the walls with stone pillows, carved reliefs

Tomb of the Leopards

Tarquinia, Italy

480-470 BC

scenes of banqueting, sitting on beds, lively, servants are nude,

darker and lighter figures(female vs. male)

abnormal for woman and men to be lying down together during a banquet,

greeks assume that all Etruscan woman are prostitutes

Etruscan woman are more equal:

shown loving

shown eating together

buried with their husbands

Tomb of Hunting and Fishing

Tarquinua, Italy

530-520 BC

young boys hunting and fishing, very unusual tomb for the time period

real landscape elements-unlike greeks

Sarcophagus

Cerveteri

terra-cata

loving embrace

reading-theopompus

Capitoline She Wolf with Romulus(founder of Rome) and Remus(son of a mortal man-mars- and Goddess Aphrodite)

From Rome, Italy

traditional date is 753 BC

500-480 BC

common symbol for Rome, even though its Etruscan based

naturalistic kids-a later edition, were there originally and then put back

Brutus 300 BC

509 BC-expulsion of the Etruscans from Rome

(because of the rape of Brutus's wife)

Becomes the Roman Empire....