ARTHIST 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Veii, Pottery Of Ancient Greece, Cerveteri
Lecture 16: Late Etruria – the Domination of Rome – Etruscan Art in Archaic and Classical periods
March 3, 2015
The Apollo from Veii
510-500 BCE
Archaic smile
Focus on the patterning of cloth rather than the human body
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri
520 BCE, painted terracotta
Tarquinia, Tomb of the Leopards
480-470 BCE
Ridgepole
Paintings of symposium – giant dinner with drinking and girls
Woman is portrayed with more light skin
Scene reminiscent of Greek vases
Lack of canon
Tarquinia, Tomb of Hunting and Fishing
530-520 BCE
Fresco painting
Diving and fishing, fresco from Tarquinia – 530-520 BCE
Joie de vie – joy of life
Tomb of Vulvi
3rd century BCE
Scene of mourning
Chimera from Arezzo
400-350 BCE
The Capitoline wolf
500-480 BCE
The Roman Empire
Much of population was enslaved
Extension of a road network; roads built by slaves
Land-based military system
Concrete kept the rocks from washing away in the river
o Made up of sand, pozzolana, slaked lime (also used to make plaster), and gravel
o Pozzolana, also known as pozzolanic ash, is a fine, sandy volcanic ash, originally discovered
and dug in Italy at Pozzuoli in the region around Vesuvius
Pier
Different type of arch, no lingered corbeled, but is true arch
o Radially set pieces with keystone
o Voussoir – a wedge-shaped structure
o Engineering for building arch – wooden support structure called “centering”
o Centering rests on an “impost” which is a projecting piece of stone
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