CategoriesCultural and Religious Styles
Etruscan Art
Art of the Etruscans of central Italy, c. 8th–1st century BC: painted tombs, terracotta sculpture, bronzes, bucchero and gold jewellery.
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The Etruscans flourished in central Italy between the Arno and the Tiber from about the 8th century BC until Rome absorbed them in the 1st century BC. They traded widely, imported Greek painted pottery in great quantity, and adapted Greek and Near Eastern forms to their own religion and funeral customs, with results that are lively, expressive and distinctly their own.
Much of what survives comes from tombs. Painted chambers at Tarquinia show banquets, dancers, musicians and hunters in bright mineral colours, as in the Tomb of the Leopards (about 470 BC). Terracotta was a favourite sculptural medium: the reclining couple of the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (about 520 BC) from Cerveteri, and the striding Apollo of Veii (about 500 BC), which once stood on a temple roof. Bronze casters produced the Chimera of Arezzo (about 400 BC) and engraved hand mirrors, and goldsmiths mastered granulation, decorating jewellery with tiny soldered beads. Glossy black bucchero pottery is distinctively Etruscan.
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