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Etruscan Art
Tuscany Region, Italy7th – 6th Centuries BCE
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Etruscan Key Ideas
• Area of modern day Tuscany (named for the Etruscans)
• Sophisticated society before the Romans• Influenced by Archaic Greek Art• Bronze and terra cotta masters• Complex necropoli tell us about them• Etruscan culture absorbed by the Romans
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Etruscan PaintingTomb of the Leopards, c. 480-470 BCE, Tarquinia, Italy
• Paintings are in tombs, which look like domestic dwellings
• May have been influenced by Greek painting
• Couples lounge at a banquet (it was unheard of for women to lounge next to their husbands in public)
• Men painted darker than women
• Celebratory emotions (perhaps a funeral banquet)
• Leopards at top• CHECKERBOARD ceiling
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Etruscan Sculpture Terra-cotta, bronze and stucco preferred media; modeled terra-cotta (not carved); look similar to archaic Greek sculpture, but with dynamic movement; lack of nudity; stylized hair
Apollo from Veii, c.510 BCE, terra-cotta, now in Rome
Sarcophagus from Cerviteri, c.520, terra-cotta, now in Rome
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Bronze Sculpture
Capitoline Wolf, c. 500 BCE, bronze, now in Rome
• Very famous sculpture, copies are all over Rome and Tuscany
• Face does not look wolf-like
• Alert, snarling, protective
• Story of Romulus and Remus suckling from she-wolf (children added during the renaissance)