Etruscan Flashcards
Fibula with orientalizing lions
Gold, 650-640 BCE, Cerveteri, Italy Luxury Item
Model of Typical 6th Century BCE Etruscan Temple
ompared to Greek Temple -Made out of mud brick, tufa and wooden columns - columns have Doric capitols and Ionic bases and no fluting (Tuscan column) - columns don’t go around the entire structure - Asymmetrical structure featuring a portico (porch in the front) - has 3 cellas to main gods (known as capitoloum) - the roof hangs over the edge and has statues on top rather tan in the pediment - no frieze - the entire structure I on a podium with one central staircase
Apulu (Apollo)
Painted terracotta, 510-500 BCE (Archaic), Veii, Italy
Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple
Painted Terracotta, 250 BCE, Cerveteri, Italy
Tumuli in the Banditacci Necropolis
Tufa and piled up earth, 7th-2nd Century BCE, Cerveteri, Italy
Tomb of the Shields and Chairs
Carved Tufa, 550-500 BCE, Banditacci, Necropolis, Cerveteri, Italy
Tomb of the Reliefs
Carved Tufa, Third Century BCE, Cerveteri, Italy
Capitoline Wolf
Bronze, 500-480 BCE, Rome
Chimera of Arezzo
Bronze, early 4th Century, Arezzo, Italy