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:

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1.“What is the ART for & what does the ART do?”

Artworks

1. Etruscan Temple2. Reclining Couple Sarcophagus3. Tomb of the Leopards4. 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

Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple (Veii), c. 510-500 BCE, painted terracotta

Kroisos Anavysos, Greece ca. 530 BC

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

Right: Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple (Veii), c. 510-500 BCE, painted

terracotta

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

Banqueters and

musicians from the

Tomb of the Leopa

rds (Tarquinia),

c. 480-470 BCE

Musicians from the Tomb of the Leopards (Tarquinia), c.

480-470 BCE

Musician from the Tomb of

the Leopards (Tarquinia

), c. 480-

470 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)