ETRUSCANSfirst people in northern and central Italy to build big

buildings out of stone.

ETRUSCAN ARCHITECTURE

• created between about 700 BC and 200 BC

• The Etruscans were considerable builders of stone, wood and other materials of temples, houses and tombs and city walls, as well as bridges and roads.

ETRUSCAN ARCHITECTURE

• Influenced by Greek Architecture• Influenced Roman Architecture

TEMPLES• Etruscans seem to have

worshipped in open air enclosures.

• Sacrifices continued to be performed outside rather than inside temples in Roman religion until its end.

TEMPLES

3 cellas one for each of chief gods.

- Tinia (Zeus/Jupiter)- Uni (Hera/Juno)- Menvra (Athena/Minerva)

TEMPLES

• The podium or base platform used stone, with the upper parts of wood and mud-brick.

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- also made of mud-bricks and wood

Etruscans built their tombs out of stone, and they

liked their tombs to look like their

houses.

TOMBSTwo Etruscan Cemeteries

- Cerveteri- Tarquinia

it was important to keep cemeteries well

separated from where people lived

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TOMBS - CERVETE

RI- they wanted their dead relatives

to feel comfortable.- They cut out tombs in the shape of their own houses, with doors and windows, and inside they

carved beds for the dead to lie on, and pillows, and sometimes chairs

as well.

CERVETERI

most people couldn't afford to build such big fancy tombs. Ordinary people were buried in

plainer tombs, cut right into the wall.

- Also known as Monterozzi

- contains 6,000 graves cut in the

rock.- It is famous for its

200 painted tombs

TARQUINIA

characteristics of etruscan architecture

• Their tombs were tightly packed in NECROPOLIS throughout Tuscany.• Interior Chamber is brightly painted to reflect interior of a house.• Entire families are buried in one tomb• Etruscan buildings made of wood and terracotta• Single flight of stairs leading to main entrance.• Sculptures put on rooftops to announce presence of deity within.