Etruscan Art

Ch. 9

Etruscan Temple 6th centurywooden roofs, sun dried brick, Ornate home for gods

- Doric Columns, narrative statuary, Terracotta instead of stone

Apulu or Apollo from the roof of the Portonccaio 500BCE

Sarcophagus with reclining couple form Cerveteri, Italy 520 BCE

Cerveteri Underground tombs 6th century BCE

- Accommodated several generations of a single family

- The walls of this tomb was staged out of the bedrock

- Stucco reliefs carve the stone, domestic context

Interior of Tomb – 3rd century – domestic items, drinking cups, pitchers, knives, living and dead connected

Leopards, banqueters and musicians, mural ptgs in the tomb of the Leopards,

Tarquinia, Italy 480 BCE

Later Etruscan Art

• 509 BCE the Romans expelled the last of the Etruscan Kings

• Etruscan dominance lost

• Tombs stopped, no golden jewelry or imported Greek vases

Capitoline Wolf – Rome 500-480 BCE

• Bronze hollow cast portrayal of She wolf

• Nursed R&R after abandonment

• Romulus killed Remus

• She wolf watchs