Visual Arts History 1040 Lecture Notes - Roman Magistrate, Veii, Tarquinia
1 Feb 2013
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During the early first millennium bce, the etruscans emerged as a people with a culture. The etruscans distinct from those of other italic peoples and the greeks. In the seventh century bce, traded metals from their mines for foreign goods and began to produce jewelry and other luxury objects decorated with motifs modeled on those found on imports from the near east. Etruscan kings ruled rome until 509 bce. Fibula with orientalizing lions, from the regolini-galassi tomb, cerveteri, italy, ca. admired greek art and architecture but did not copy greek works. This huge gold pin found with other orientalizing jewelry in a cerveteri tomb combines repouss and granulation and is the work of an etruscan artist, but the lions are near eastern motifs. Model of a typical etruscan temple, sixth century bce, as described by vitruvius. Similar to grk but not exactly, platform w/ columns, sculptures on top, axial entry, one direction.
