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Chapter 9: Etruscan Art
Gardners Art Through the Ages
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Art History
12th Grade
10/19/2010

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Model of an Etruscan Temple

D: Sixth Century BCE

P/S: Archaic/Early Etruscan/ Uniquely Etruscan.

A: Unknown, though the model had been described by Vitruvius

Pa: Unknown

L: Initially Italy, but this is a model.

M/T: Would have been wood

F: Temple.

C: Resembled contemporary Greek stone gable-roofed temples, but it had woodem columns and wooden roof and its walls were made of sun-dried brick. entrance throught staircase.

DT: None

pg. 235 fig. 9.2

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Apulu (Apollo), from the root of the Portonacio Temple

D: ca. 510-500 BCE

P/S: Etruscan

A: Some have attributed this to Vulca of Veii

Pa: Unknown

L: From the Roof of he Portonaccio Temple in Veii, Italy

M/T: painted terracotta (also, was originally painted)

F: Roof decorative god depiction/statute

C: has dynamic movement, overexaggerated tension in flexed muscles, had an archaic smile.

DT: none

pg. 236 fig. 9.3

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Sarcophagus with reclining couple

D: ca. 520 BCE

P/S: Etruscan

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Cerveteri, Italy

M/T: Painted Terracotta

F: Tomb to hold remains

C: Etruscans actually were in the tradition of cremation. So they would put the remains in small jars, sealed and then set inside large sarcophagus like this one.

DT: archaic smile

pg. 237 fig. 9.4

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Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs

D: Third century B.C.E.

P/S: Etruscan

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Cerveteri, Italy

M/T: Hold tomb cut in tufa (local dark limestone). with painted wall decorations, archaic style covered in stucco.

F: Underground tomb

C: Stools, mirrors, drinking cups, pitchers and knives suggested a domestic contact the Etruscians connected between the dead and the living.

DT: None

pg. 239 fig. 9.7

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Leopards, banqueters, and musicians (Tomb of Leopards)

D: ca. 480-470 BCE

P/S: Etruscan

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Tarquinia, Italy

M/T: Carved out of tufa, painted and fresco

F: Underground tomb

C: Had depictions of leopards, banqueters and musicians for the afterlife.

DT: None

pg. 239 fig. 9.8


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Capitoline Wolf

D: ca. 500-480 B.C.E.

P/S: Late Classical Etruscian Period

A: Unknown. (Romulus and Remus added later-only look at Etruscan wolf)

Pa:  Unknown

L: Rome, Italy

M/T: Hollow casted bronze

F: Statute

DT: None

pg. 241 fig. 9.10

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