- 1.ETRUSCAN ARTS
2. ETRUSCANS
Etruscan Civilization was created on the now known Tuscany region
of Italy.
It isn't known where they came from, but the character of their art
and many distinctive features of their religion make it clear that
the original Etruscans were from a region in Asia Minor.
During the Iron Age (1000 to 1 B.C.), urban civilization spread
throughout Etruria - Tarquinia was probably the oldest city and is
the most famous. The other centers were Caere (Cerveteri), Vulci,
and Veii (Veio).
3. ETRUSCANS
When they arrived, they brought a high level of a Greek-like
culture with them. Like the Greeks, the Etruscans lived in
fortified cities.
For their Greek contemporaries and Roman successors, the Etruscans
were clearly a different ethnic group.
For their Greek contemporaries and Roman successors, the Etruscans
were clearly a different ethnic group.
4. Architecture
Etruscans built palaces, public buildings, and early temples in
wood and brick, so nothing remained.
Ceramic models of temples, as well as traces of later stone
structures, indicate how temples were built in enclosures and had
tiled, gabled roofs supported on pillars, like their Greek
counterparts.
An Etruscan temple, to meet religious requirements, was located on
a north-south axis and stood on a high podium with a four-columned
porch.
Roman temples were patterned on the form developed by the
Etruscans.
5. Most Etruscan cities were fortified and with encompassing walls
enforced by double gates and towers.
The Etruscans also built aqueducts, bridges, and sewers.
Outside the cities were cemeteries containing family tombs.
They were built underground but had large vaults of overlapping
stones covered by mounds of earth.
6. 7. ETRUSCAN ENGINEERING
8. ETRUSCAN TEMPLE
9. ETRUSCAN SCULPTURE
The Etruscans created artistic objects mostly for religious
purposes.
Important part of their art is associated with their funerary
customs.
The cult of the dead, similar to contemporaneous Egyptian
practices, produced a highly developed sepulchral art.
The sculptured lids of sarcophagi often represented a single figure
or a couple with the haunting archaic smile so evident in early
Greek sculpture.
10. ETRUSCAN SCULPTURE
The most famous Etruscan works are in terra-cotta, or baked clay,
and these include besides sculptures on sarcophagi, also works from
temples.
11. 12. 13. ERTRUSCAN FRESCO
The Etruscan paintings that have survived to modern times are
mostly wall frescoes from graves, and mainly from Tarquinia.
These are incredibly important as the most important example of
pre-Roman figurative art in Italy known to scholars.
The frescoes consist of painting on top of fresh plaster, so that
when the plaster is dried the painting becomes part of the plaster
and an integral part of the wall, which helps it survive so
well.
Colors were made from stones and minerals in different colors that
ground up and mixed in a medium, and fine brushes were made of
animal hair (even the best brushes are produced with ox
hair).
14. 15. 16. 17. ETRUSCAN DECORATIVE ARTS
The Etruscans at first imported and copied painted Greek
pottery.
They were particularly noted for their black bucchero pottery with
incised or relief decoration suggesting metalwork.
They were experts with the potter's wheel. It was at its height in
the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C. Working in bronze, the
Etruscans made chariots, bowls, candelabra, cylindrical coffers,
and especially polished mirrors, all richly engraved with
mythological motifs.
The Etruscans were famous for their gold jewelry. Their goldwork
was among the finest anywhere in the ancient world. They also
crafted silver, and ivory jewelry, using filigree and
granulation
18. 19. 20. temple of Juno Sospita, Lanuvium (6th - 5th Century
BCE)
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Prepared by: JC de Egurrola
