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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.TRANSCRIPT
Wednesday• Turn in Etruscan worksheet.
• Any questions over updated Syllabus.
• Etruscan Art
• Ch.9 Etruscan Quiz tomorrow.
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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)