There are also depictions of tools and objects from everyday life.

300, BCE, rock cut The interiors are highly painted and decorated depicting scenes of everyday life and banquets and partying. Houses for the Dead: Banditaccia Necropolis, Cerveteri, seventh to second centuries B.C. They are arranged in a very orderly manner Necropolis at Cerveteri7th - 2nd c. Necropolis at Cerveteri: The Etruscans built large necropoli, sometimes with hundreds of tombs.These were located outside of the cities of the living.The tombs are beneath a mound of earth called a tumulus and were carved from the tufa (soft, volcanic rock) that underlies much of the region. They look as if they will carry on their party into the afterlife in the company of the friends and family who may share their tomb or reside in a nearby tomb Sarcophagus with reclining couple, from Cerveteri, ca. These figures, a loving, married couple, lie together on banquet couch. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome.ĭining in the Afterlife: A sarcophagus made of terracotta was shaped into a life-sized banqueting couch on which recline a man and woman. Apulu (Apollo), from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple, Veii, ca. This Apollo originally decorated the roof of a temple a type of architectural sculpture called an acroterion. Istituto di Etruscologia e di Antichita Italiche, Universita di Roma, Rome.Īn Epic Contest on a Rooftop: One example of these rooftop statues is the life-size image of Apulu from a temple in the Portonaccio sanctuary at Veii. Temples for the Etruscan Gods: Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century B.C., as described by Vitruvius. By 200 BCE Etruscan culture was regarded as legendary by the Roman people. (see The Aeneid.) They may have been indigenous to the region or made up of migrating people who moved into the area. Livy and Virgil say that the Etruscans emigrated from Troy following it's fall. They traded with the Greeks, and in that way Greek ideas, art and design concepts were incorporated into their culture with interesting variations. Roman Art: Alan Petersen: The Art of Rome Gardner Art HistoryĮtruscan Art (800 – 600 BCE) Etruria was a confederacy of twelve states.

Gardenscape from the villa livia