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9/27 Warm-Up
Compare and Contrast the two works. Label and fully identify.
Etruscan Art
Etruscan: Etymology
Romans Called its creators the Tusci or Etrusci
Origins of the terms Tuscany and Etruria (the wider region)
Attic Greek called them Tyrsenoi.
Etruscans called themselves Rasenna, Rasna.
Etruscan: Culture
No known prehistory. No literature no texts
of religion or philosophy.
How do we know about them at all?
Expansion of influence into the Italian peninsula due to iron and copper mining
Etruscan: Roman Influence Etruscan
settlements were built on a hill. Why?
Romulus and Remus founded Rome using Etruscan rituals. What are they?
Etruscan: Society
State system, former chiefdoms and tribal forms.
Theocracy. Sound familiar?
Family tombs of the aristocratic family. Parallels the gens at Rome.
Etruscan Artistic Themes
The strengths and power of Family Strong women’s
rights in many areas as a divergence from earlier Greece, and later Italy
Bonfante and the nude embrace
Etruscan Artistic Themes
Dates back to Bronze Age and Iron Age Asia Minor
Pinnacle coincides with the Greek archaic period.
Etruscan Art: Timeline
800-650 BCE: Orientalising period
650-500 BCE – Archaic period
500-300-BCE – Classical period
300-100 BCE – Late phase; absorbed into Roman Culture
Etruscan Funerary Art
Excelled in portraying humans.
Cremation and inhumation at the same time.
Late 6th century is the start of sarcophagi sculptures in recline
9/29 Warm-Up
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius
How might this quote reflect an Etruscan ideal?
Civita di Bagnoregio
Etruscan Sculptural Art
The Veii Apulu was partof a statuary groupdepicting a Greek myth.Distinctly Etruscan,however, are the god’svigorous motion andgesticulating arms andthe placement of thestatue on a temple roof.
Apulu (Apollo),from the roof of thePortonaccio temple,Veii,Italy, ca. 510–500 bce.Painted terracotta, 5 11high.Museo Nazionaledi Villa Giulia, Rome.
Etruscan Funerary Art
Sarcophagus with recliningcouple, from Cerveteri, Italy,ca. 520 bce. Painted terracotta,3 91–2 6 7.Museo Nazionaledi Villa Giulia, Rome.
Sarcophagi in the form of ahusband and wife on a diningcouch have no parallels inGreece. The artist’s focus onthe upper half of the figuresand the emphatic gestures areEtruscan hallmarks.
Tumuli inthe Banditaccianecropolis, Cerveteri,Italy, seventh tosecond centuries bce.
In the Banditaccia necropolis (city of the dead) at Cerveteri, the Etruscans buried several generations of families in multi-chambered rock-cut underground tombs covered by great earthen mounds(tumuli).
Mural paintings adorn many of theunderground tombs at Tarquinia.In this tomb, banqueting couples,servants, and musicians celebratethe joys of the good life. The menhave dark skin, the women fair skin.
Interior of the Tomb ofthe Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy,ca. 480–470 bce.
Etruscan Sculptural Art
CHIMERA OF AREZZO Another masterpieceof Etruscan bronze-casting is the Chimera ofArezzo
The chimera was a composite monster slain by the Greek hero Bellerophon. In this Etruscan statue, the artist depicted the wounded beast poised to attack and growling ferociously.
Sarcophagus of LarsPulena, from Tarquinia, Italy,early second century bce. Tufa,6 6 long.Museo ArcheologicoNazionale, Tarquinia.