Wednesday
• Turn in Etruscan worksheet.
• Any questions over updated Syllabus.
• Etruscan Art
• Ch.9 Etruscan Quiz tomorrow.
Pass back graded work @ end of class
9/28/11 Reading Prompt
• In what way was the Etruscan rise and fall
from power reflected in the decoration of
their tombs? To what degree was it
reflected in their bronze work?
• Write & Date Question. Highlight answer in
your lecture notebook. Will grade answer
when I collect your notes on Unit 2 exam
day.
Divide into groups of 3
• Each group will have an artwork to
Analyze in 5 minutes.
• Will share analysis to the class. (15 min)
minutes)
• Write on white boards. Big/ Clear/ Precise
– Everyone else takes notes.
• Form-Describe the form, elements & principles
of design. How it looks. Shape, lines, style,
colors, etc.
• Content- What do you see? What is depicted
• Context- What is the function? Context
– Context answers:
•
1.“What is the ART for & what does the ART
do?”
Artworks
1.
2.
3.
4.
Etruscan Temple
Reclining Couple Sarcophagus
Tomb of the Leopards
Capitoline Wolf
Monday
• Aegean & Greek Quiz (15 minutes)
• Etruscan P.P.
• Reminder:
– Roman worksheets due Tomorrow
– Thursday Rough Draft Essay & Bibliography
DUE!!!
– Extra Credit: During A Lunch, or after school Today, come in to watch
Art of the Western World episode: Greek Art. Attending this session, for
at least 30 minutes, will earn you a 100 to substitute for a missing or low
quiz grade. Lunch session (must be here on time! Will not get credit if
you’re working on homework or goofing off)
Etruscan Art
(700-539 BCE)
• Etruscans = Ancient Italians
who adopted much of he Greek
Culture (was ETRURIA, now
TUSCANY)
• We know about their culture
from the elaborate Necropoli
filled with tombs
• Sculptures influence by Archaic
Greek work
• Bronze and Terra-cotta works
Etruscan Art
(700-539 BCE)
Columns were smooth
and did not surround
temple
Only one set of stairs
leading up to stylobate
Lots of terra-cotta
sculpture – especially on
roof
Front and Back sides no
longer the same
Kroisos
Anavysos, Greece ca. 530 BC
Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the
Portonaccio Temple (Veii),
c. 510-500 BCE, painted terracotta
Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the
Portonaccio Temple (Veii),
c. 510-500 BCE, painted terracotta
Etruscan temples with rooftop
terracotta statuary, three cellas,
Tuscan columns, and a frontal
staircase/ animated figures with an
“Archaic smile”/ Apulu (Etruscan
Apollo), possibly the work of Vulca of
Veii
Left: Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple
(Veii),
c. 510-500 BCE, painted
terracotta
Right: Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple
Etruscan tombs (tumuli) carved out of tufa
The tombs of Cerveteri
Orientalizing lions from
the Regolini-Galassi
Tomb (Cerveteri),
c. 650-640 BCE
fibula, a fastening pin
found in a tomb/
combining repoussé with
granulation/ Eastern
influences (Orientalizing
lions)
Sarcophagus from Cerveteri. C520 BCE 6’7” in length. ETRUSCAN
Sarcophagus of
Ramtha Visnai
(Vulci), c. 300 BCE,
limestone
Tomb of the Reliefs
(Cerveteri), 3rd century BCE
musici
ans
from
the
Tomb
of the
Leopa
rds
(Tarqu
inia),
Musicians from the Tomb of
the Leopards (Tarquinia), c.
480-470 BCE
Tomb of
the
Leopards
(Tarquinia
),
c. 480470 BCE
Romulus and Remus nursed by a She-Wolf
Tarquinius Superbus, the
last of the Etruscan kings/
Romulus and Remus
(placed on a raft by their
mother Rhea Silvia to
protect them from the rage
of their uncle Amulius)
raised by a she-wolf/
mixture of stylization and
naturalism, with incised
detail
Chimera of Arezzo (Arezzo),
early 4th century BCE, bronze
a chimera: ( mythical monster-lion head, lion tail) depicted as a
composite animal, animated and ferocious/ killed by Bellerophon while
riding Pegasus
Mars of Todi, early 4th century
BCE, bronze
Etruscan interpretation of the
Polykleitan canon/ rarity of nudity
in Etruscan art
Novios Plautios. Ficoroni Cista
(Palestrina), late 4th century
BCE,
Cista-cylindrical containers
used by wealth women.
Aule Metele (Arringatore, Orator)
(Sanguineto), early 1st century
BCE
self-confidence of a Roman
magistrate with an Etruscan name/
resemblance to contemporary
Roman portraits and inspiration for
later depictions of emperors (such
as Augustus)