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The Etruscans 700 - 509 BCE.

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1 The Etruscans BCE

2 Etruscan Apollo Painted Terracotta, c. 500 BCE, 5’10” Model of Etruscan Temple: Built with mud-brick, wooden roof, wood or tufa columns. Large terracotta statues placed on roof, rather than pediment. note “Archaic Smile”

3 Etruscan Etruscan Grave Mounds La Banditaccia Cemetary Cerveteri, Italy 7th-4th century BCE

4 Tomb of the Reliefs Cerveteri, Italy 3rd century BCE
Etruscan

5 Etruscan Musicians and Dancers Tomb of the Lioness, Tarquinia, Italy BCE Two Musicians Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, Italy BCE

6 Etruscan Sarcophagus from Cerveteri, c 520 BCE, terracotta length 6’7”

7 Etruscan Porta Augusta 2nd century BCE (Monumental city gate of Perugia) - Early Etruscan use of round arch and barrel vault that will become staple of Roman architecture

8 Portrait sculpture - used both bronze and terracotta
Etruscan Head of Man c. 300 BCE, bronze with painted ivory eyes. Etruscan or Roman? Apollo terracotta Head of a man terracotta

9 Etruscan She-Wolf c. 500 BCE, bronze, height 33.5” (Twins are 15th or 16th cent. CE additions) Chimera Bronze, c. 300 BCE


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